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AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking (adnauseam.io)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Interesting, was wondering about this. This would also "help" the websites with more ad income right?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    if thats true, brb setting up a website and a bot farm

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Haha I imagine they need at least unique ip addresses to count. Now I wonder if for clicks to count you need to properly click through and load the target website with the same "browser fingerprint".

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