I was the one who made the original comment. The ad industry does not have to adopt at all, because they use a bidding system. Just advertisers have to adopt by bidding less. Sophisticated advertisers will automatically do that because they keep track of conversions.

Maybe an auto-clicker could use ABP's acceptable ads filter to focus on reducing the effectiveness of "unacceptable" ads. (But the ad networks are just going to figure out how to detect the clicks and mark them fraudulent anyway.)

It's essentially just another form of click fraud, which is a tricky problem but the ad industry already largely has tools in place to deal with it.