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Software can detect the hardware it's being run on. I imagine that massive amounts of targeted clicks and views detected from x86, or emulated Android, would trigger fraud alerts.
Additionally, phones are cheap and use a lot less power then the x86 cluster required to replicate that many "individual" users/devices.
You can always spoof what software sees, but I guess this hackery development of spoofing tools would be more expensive than doing it on physical phones.
On top of that, they pay these people so little that it's cheaper to hire 50 of them for a year than to hire one person to run an operation like that for the same time.