▲ 865 ▼ 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 joshchandra@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 172 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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!
[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) if thats true, brb setting up a website and a bot farm permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 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". permalink fedilink source parent [–] joshchandra@midwest.social [S] 6 points 1 year ago* Careful: that then enters the world of ad fraud, which randos like us doing the clicking isn't considered as. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 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". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] joshchandra@midwest.social [S] 6 points 1 year ago* Careful: that then enters the world of ad fraud, which randos like us doing the clicking isn't considered as. permalink fedilink source parent