How can a company know it is 1 computer

Unless I am very much mistaken, statistics will out you. Any endeavor involving clicks results in patterns. Aberrations in these patterns are very easy to spot with analytical software. Real traffic will statistically behave a certain way, and you cannot duplicate it. While deviations from the norm happen all the time, but they do not happen consistently to the same account, or for that matter any group of accounts.

The campaign will have predictable/historical CTR and conversion rates. If your CTR is way up, and your conversions way down or non existent, you will not get paid, and they will ban you for fraud. You cannot fake the conversion, no matter how masterfully you fake the click.

For the record your computer probably has multiple MAC address. MAC stands for Media Access Controller, and is a hardcoded value built into every network adapter card, modem, and wireless adapter in the world. If you have a LAN jack on a wireless capable laptop you already have two MAC addresses, one for each controller. If you stick in a USB to Ethernet adapter you will get another, hook up 100 of them and you will have 100 more MAC addresses. All the MAC address is used for is a destination to send the data that is flowing to the IP address you are currently using. Since the IP address can change, it cannot be used to find a particular computer. To do this the IP address "resolves" itself (or points to), to the MAC address on the computer in use.
 
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They track useragent, ip, browser, and countless other things.

In one of your posts you said "I'm just trying to see if this will work"
Will it work in theory - yes to make fraudulent sales / leads
Will it work in reality - no, you will be banned within a day maybe, if not sooner.
 
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