That does help - I'm 99% sure. I'm pretty damned sure (by way of cookies and any active scripting) that they keep track of that - and things like how long you visit the links. I mean, they're Google. They've got some of the biggest collections of data at their disposal. Fraud protection seems like something they're probably really good at - but I suspect they only really pay attention to the bigger customers.
I've accidentally clicked links, plural, with my browser logged into my Google account, using the same IP address, and having the same cookies as I have when I log into AdSense itself! They credited my account for most of them. Once in a blue moon the total estimated will be a little different than the total paid out, but it's never by much.
I doubt there's even a human in the loop at my level. I suspect it's all automated and that there's not even a person that authorizes payments when payments are made.
Do you think it gives less if I were to just click the ad and then close the page it brings up?
With no person to authorize the payments I would think that would be ripe for hacking
I think it'd refuse to pay out at all if you just closed the page as soon as it opened. With enough of that, it might even decide all your clicks are fraudulent. Odds are that they'd eventually take it out on the site owner.
It'd take an awful lot of humans to review all the payments AdSense sends out. I really doubt there's a human in the loop by default, unless you're at a certain threshold. There are millions of AdSense users.
Yeah that would take a whole lot of people. I suppose they just have the computers flag those with irregularities for a human to review.
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