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The Trump Rebate Banking system (TRB) is a confidence trick targeting fans of Donald Trump.TRB system vendors sell membership materials and collectible items, like "Trump coin" medallions, "Trump Bucks" banknotes, and metal checks, that they suggest will become legal tender under a future monetary system.
ClickBank is an e-commerce platform for physical and digital products, digital content creators (also known as sellers) and affiliate marketers, who then promote them to consumers. [1] In 2011, it offered over 46,000 individual products to its affiliate marketers. [3] It has annual turnover of $1 Billion USD.
Click farms have also been used to increase the views on everything from Spotify, Twitch and YouTube to creating fake reviews for businesses, products or services. Many click farms advertise openly on the internet, usually masquerading as genuine traffic sources.
A defining characteristic of clickbait is misrepresentation in the enticement presented to the user to manipulate them to click onto a link. While there is no universally agreed-upon definition of clickbait, Merriam-Webster defines clickbait as "something designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink, especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest."
Pay-per-click (PPC) is an internet advertising model used to drive traffic to websites, in which an advertiser pays a publisher (typically a search engine, website owner, or a network of websites) when the ad is clicked.
[75] [76] In response, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the question "why the fuck do I need a google+ account to comment on a video?" on his YouTube channel to express his negative opinion of the change. [77] The official YouTube announcement [78] received 20,097 "thumbs down" votes and generated more than 32,000 comments in two days. [79]
Internet manipulation may be seen being used within business and marketing as a way to influence consumers. Forbes , discusses how disinformation online can be spread rapidly across social platforms. Legitimate and fake news are blurring together and both are being weaponized on large-scale campaigns to influence the general population.
Views represent how many times a video is watched. To ensure that traffic is coming from actual humans and not scripts or other deceptive methods, YouTube has a secret algorithm to separate legitimate views from illegitimate ones, and only legitimate views are included in the view count. [3]