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Experimental add-on for modeling search volume in Firefox
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Ad clicks are not registered if they come from keyboard #3

Closed Softvision-VladBacia closed 6 years ago

Softvision-VladBacia commented 7 years ago

[Affected versions]:

[Affected Platforms]:

[Prerequisites]:

[Steps to reproduce]:

  1. Open the browser with the profile from prerequisites.
  2. Make a search in the browser that returns multiple ads.
  3. Press "Tab" keyboard button until an Ad is selected.
  4. Press "Enter" keyboard button.

[Expected result]:

[Actual result]:

Standard8 commented 7 years ago

I can reproduce this with Google, but not Yahoo. From what I can tell, if you use use keyboard on google's site, then it doesn't go to the ad server. There's a ping of some sort to their servers, but not the ad one.

past commented 7 years ago

My understanding is that ad click tracking is done using mousedown and touchstart events, so in the case of keyboard selection the ad visit is not counted.