▲ 227 ▼ I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their traffic is fake (joindatacops.com) submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 10 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/676673 Comments
[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children) Sounds like another bubble ripe for bursting. permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 year ago (1 child) I used to work in marketing as a dev and this shit never made sense to me. I didn't investigate like TFA but I am 0% surprised by the finding. Incentives are all misaligned. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] nullPointer@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago muh KPIs!! permalink fedilink source parent [–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago It's systemic, and whether or not it's perpetrated directly by big tech, they are the primary beneficiaries i.e. increased ad sales. This is a problem that requires regulation, which means it will not be addressed meaningfully, as that won't happen anytime soon. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 year ago (1 child) I used to work in marketing as a dev and this shit never made sense to me. I didn't investigate like TFA but I am 0% surprised by the finding. Incentives are all misaligned. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] nullPointer@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago muh KPIs!! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago It's systemic, and whether or not it's perpetrated directly by big tech, they are the primary beneficiaries i.e. increased ad sales. This is a problem that requires regulation, which means it will not be addressed meaningfully, as that won't happen anytime soon. permalink fedilink source parent