Aside from this seeming superficially silly—I was under the impression that most ads on web pages pay the site owner per click, not per impression. And also that if you click on an ad with the intention of causing the site owner to make money, rather than because you’re interested in the subject of the ad, then Google calls it “click fraud”, that they have schemes of unknown effectiveness for detecting this, and if they do detect it, they’ll punish the site owner.
Aside from this seeming superficially silly—I was under the impression that most ads on web pages pay the site owner per click, not per impression. And also that if you click on an ad with the intention of causing the site owner to make money, rather than because you’re interested in the subject of the ad, then Google calls it “click fraud”, that they have schemes of unknown effectiveness for detecting this, and if they do detect it, they’ll punish the site owner.