Supper Aff has documented a discussion at Getpaid forum of hundreds of people on the topic of click fraud.

The twist is that they’re not talking about how to prevent it or whether or not it is a problem. The discussion is more like:

For a search to qualify as valid these 2 steps must be followed:

1) Click a search term, word or phrase on the portal or parking page and let the results page fully load.

On portals with search boxes you may also enter a search term, word or phrase of your own.

2) click a result and let the page fully load.
You may click up to 3 results from one search without going over search limits. After following these 2 steps you have completed a valid search.

Yeah, as the membership Rises at a profit sharing site, the share lowers, that’s how they go.

In this light, the ‘forced search’ site, is a superior variation of the basic model.

ptr is Extremely well suited to ripping off ppc/cpc. Megabucks in it too…

I do not see what all this crap is about. Wah I have to make a search *sniffles* grow the hell up ######. That’s what we get paid to do. If you don’t search, you get fractions of pennies. Who wants that?

0 iframes now contain over 100 auto searches where they used to contain only two or three. Ever wonder why this is happening? It’s crumbling fast, they’re getting caught faster, the bids are drying up faster.

and hundreds more.

Of course none of this matters because click fraud is largely irrelivant, the perfect ecconomic solution is to just let it happen and click fruad is not at all rampant.

Hat tip to V7n.