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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
Very interesting post - but no overly surprising. I'd love to find out if the bots are in fact being utilized by Facebook.
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I initially scoffed at this, but then after some thought realised - who would benefit from faking FB clicks, considering that they don't (AFAIK?) serve ads on third party sites? No one, unless they were hoping to kill off FB as a long term thing. If it were FB themselves doing the fake clicks, I'm sure they'd be smart enough to write a hitbot that loaded inline objects such as javascript source and images, and clicked on a couple of random links. Very puzzling.