I always click on ads for companies I don’t like. The cost to them is trivial, but whatever. It’s a petty vengeance.
I read once that a good thing to do was to physically mail a low denomination check to the campaign. All because the work and effort to record and deposit the funds was so labor intensive by an actual person.
You’ll need to mail thousands of them for it to matter. The labor and expense for you to do that is greater than the labor and expense for them. Plus, I feel like they’d probably just throw the checks away if they are like a penny, or something stupid low.
Anything that you can think of has already been thought of, modelled, and done by international actors who have more resources, technical capability and time than you, and have far fewer morals.
You want a specific outcome to this election? So do Russia and China. They’re a lot better at this than you are and are orders of magnitude more invested in it.
I’m spitballing for a conversation. I don’t think I’m a pivotal strategic player.
Edit: that said, I do think what you said is certainly worth mention, so I want to get ahead of my defensiveness.
So to continue, do you think that such a tactic would be valuable for a state funded interest?
Web ads already drain accounts like water in a bathtub. Your ideal click thru rate is in the mid 2% and that’s just clicks, not conversions. If you are a politician it’s a lousy and expensive way to market yourself. Just like businesses you do it just to crowd out others that are doing the same thing.
Don’t stoop to their level
Bruh. “They go low, we go high” gave us fucking Trump. That strategy didn’t work. We are not trying it again in a nearly identical context.
And if you start a brigading campaign against them, it’ll just be used to raise their platform.
