<b>Myth: Widget arbitrage is a reliable cash machine.</b>

<b>Myth: Widget arbitrage is a reliable cash machine.</b>

No. The model — buy cheap native clicks, dump them on a slideshow page stuffed with display, pocket the spread — is a structurally decaying trade, not a business.

Your buy-side CPC inflates the moment the vendor's algorithm sees you scaling (they optimize for their revenue, not yours). Your sell-side RPM erodes as the open exchange floors drop and viewability filters tighten. The spread compresses from both ends simultaneously.

The "arb gurus" selling courses are monetizing you, not the traffic. If the edge were durable they wouldn't need your $497. Allegedly passive income; actually a losing race against two algorithms at once.