Andrew McCalip's ad platform caps earnings at $5 per hour to combat automated click fraud

@andrewmccalip But please be careful, you sat the limit to 200 and it would be nice to find a way to reach that Authentically and without impression farming

If you want it to be legit and not scare away advertisers, you probably need to limit users to 1 ad stream at a time. No opening multiple windows of VS Code, or if you do allow that cap it to like 4.

Then also add codex app server integration and have it find the agent state via that so we can use it with the codex app rather than vs code

Recommend also making a widget that pins itself to the codex pet screen position so advertisers can pay more for billboards that display next to the pet

Pls give me 1% lifetime commission for these ideas, thanks

Totally, it's the good guy move. I'll do a refund for any ad campaigns that were hit by identified click farms. The ad impression level data lets me reconstruct all traffic. A few SQL queries is all it takes to map fraud clusters to campaigns.

This isn't really about making money 😂

@antoniogm Were you the one who said every new tech is first used for ads, porn, and crime? They speedran the trifecta: - rampant ad fraud - memecoin rugs - porn ads

@andrewmccalip i invested a million token building this https://github.com/OthmanAdi/kickbacks-kit for your project. i really like it and beleive in it.

@andrewmccalip That's a much bigger problem, you won't win this fight like this, like fraudsters won't just make multiple accounts, use residential proxies, spoof accounts, etc.

@andrewmccalip I'd like to be able to see all the blocks my ads are showing on please, please.

@andrewmccalip Will be good to set up a fair use document for both advertisers and users.

@andrewmccalip Currently system is not working i've been coding for 5 hours and earned zero

@andrewmccalip You nerfed it? I've been coding diligently for the past 8hrs+ and they pay was good at first, but you can obviously see from the graph that something has been nerfed... I've been using it about the same amount the entire time. As I'd usually use claude.

I'm not spamming either.

Ads are amazing at reducing the cost of services. But the moment ads make the cost negative, you incentivize everyone to maximize usage for its own sake. Every case of paying users a real cut of ad revenue has failed (e.g. BAT, even with 1% kickback's rev share). Really powerful (probably invasive) anti-fraud tech might overcome this, but you're fighting economics.

@andrewmccalip Sometimes the ads aren't shown, but revenue is generated.

@andrewmccalip This motivated me to do lots of personal stuff, thanks!

@degenpotat12673 @andrewmccalip Update extension

@andrewmccalip it's one of the most creative ai project ive seen in recent times, keep on keeping on

@andrewmccalip My balance has been frozen since the start i think. I saw $0.14 on the first 2 prompts after installing the extension, but since then i ahven't seen any ads or revenue

@andrewmccalip you are now about to embark on a multi-year long journey to figure out how to avoid giving money to spammers gg 😂🫡

@andrewmccalip So the brands who burnt their money on spammers will get a refund too? Will you be informing them yourself?

@sudopong @andrewmccalip It was working perfectly yesterday but today it doesn't work at all even after reinstalling the plugin