Comments on: Google says click fraud settlement near

Under proposed $90 million settlement, Google would give ad credits for fraudulent clicks on ads dating back to 2002.

[canadaboy]

It's settlements like these that make me dislaike Class Action suits

So - the settlement is for $90million cap vs. Billions, and only part of that is to cover all Lawyer expenses, the rest goes to fill unused Google ad inventory.

This is an example of class action suit where the only people to benefit from this are the lawyers, the "prize" for those really effected is marginal, and indeed, is STILL SUBJECT TO CLICK FRAUD. We'll give you credit in a system still susceptable to what you sued us for.

[Cyrus_K]

You are right mainly

You are mainly right: that is too much of the settlement money in case of Class action suites goes to lawyers, as is the case here.
But Class action suites are absolutely needed, because how else can a company with few 100K in cash , set a side an individual with even less in cash, sue a behemoth like Google, etc. who have Billions in cash and are hence armed "literally" with an Army of lawyers. In fact Google is hiring lawyers at a faster rate than any other company in Silicon Valley history.

I guess they expect that their ClickFraud is going to sooner or later catch up h them and expose the fact that most of Google WebAds are nothing but click fraud driven, that is of course why they refuse to disclose the details of their WebAds click through and refuse audit by 3rd party companies to verify the authenticity of their WebAds click through.

[AdvolutionNow]

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[rohanpinto]

click fraud exponentiated

nice read... google's willing to pay advertisers back for fraudulent clicks BUT unwilling to prevent it even when they have been notified of vulnerabilities in their system that could be exploited.

I have been able to prove to google that I could generate fraudulent clicks that EXCEED 2000% CTR. I asked them to fix it. I gave them a demo... and in return all they did was ban me and not fix the issue...

I am contemplating releasing the exploit in the public domain to see how google would handle click fraud if exploited....

reference: http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?8,17826#msg-21951