Doing that is borderline fraud - I believe that GP meant to highlight this. If it gets counted as actual clicks, it's actually explicitly defrauding the advertiser.
Most people sometimes leave the room while ads play on TV. The advertisers know that and work the percentage of pepole that do that into their pricing, etc.
Also, non-organic click fraud is rampant already (and maybe even the majority of clicks). /dev/null + click would at least route ad income to reputable sites that at least have some human readers to view future ad impressions.
There is a difference between you ignoring ads as a user, or an adblock tool removing the ads entirely, and a tool that explicitly tries to make it look as if the user is interacting with the ads. The last tool is actively malicious and deceptive in a way the others are not.
I never meant to imply clicking the ads in order to get fake clicks. What I meant was for any ads posters/videos that are loaded during page load to go ahead and load them BUT don't display them. This gives the website the impression count, but no fraudulent click throughs. This was how I was equating it to walking out of the room during broadcast commercial breaks.
