CLICK SPAM PREVENTION MODEL FOR ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT
This paper shows a vulnerability of the pay-per-click accounting of Google Ads and proposes a statistical tradeoff-based approach to manage this vulnerability. The result of this paper is a model to calculate the overhead cost per click necessary to protect the subscribers and a simple algorithm to implement this protection. Simulations validate the correctness of the model and the economical applicability.
Authors
- Nicola Zingirian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3229-9361)
Institutions
- University of Padua (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Published
- 2025-02-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14809966
- Primary Topic
- Spam and Phishing Detection
- Type
- article