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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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[–] 93 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Google has put a lot of effort into detecting and blocking stuff like this. They call it "click fraud", if you want to look it up.

It'll just mean they start ignoring clicks from you.

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That, I guess, it’s the whole point. Stopping being tracked 🙂

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    This feels like reverse psychology on a little kid.

    "That's it, I'm not tracking you anymore! >:("
    "Oooh nooo, what have I done! Oh how much I would wish to be tracked :("
    "No, you won't convince me to change my mind >:("
    "Oh well, guess I'll have to live without being tracked, what a shame that is."

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They call it “click fraud”,

    No, click fraud is using botnets to click ads in your site to increase your revenue.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It is literally uBlock. It updates with uBlock, uses uBlock filtering, uBlock options, uBlock UI.

    The only difference is that it also does ad fuckery and there is a button that you can press to configure the ad fuckery and see a log of the ad fuckery.

    Other than that it is exactly uBlock.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    if enough people start doing it might be effective

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not sure how true it was, but there was a YouTuber claiming that their videos were getting entirely demonetized because too many of their viewers had Ad blockers enabled. So even though 75% of people were seeing ads on the video, Google was keeping that ad revenue, withholding it all from the creator because 25% weren't getting ads. The claim the youtuber made is that this will probably predominantly impact creators with a more tech savvy / privacy aware audience, resulting in less of that niche content.

    Anyway, this is anecdotal, but I wouldn't put it past Google to pass the issue to the creators for the actions of their consumers, even though it's not their fault.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Creators who care about privacy should not support Google’s monopoly by using YouTube as their platform of choice.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    legit, there are so many platforms out there, idc which one they use, but pretty please, just mirror your content. Why's it so hard 😵‍💫. The group im referring to doesnt even have the "money ads" argument as what most small creators earn on yt is peanuts.

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

    Throw in a dash of track-me-not (https://www.trackmenot.io/) and maybe they'll start ignoring your search queries too! Worst case my actual searches are so buried in the bs deciding what to market would be easier from my screen-name.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fascinating, thanks for sharing! What is the best, current Firefox fork of this one, if you know?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    it's a browser extension for Firefox, not a fork of Firefox. Or did I misunderstand you?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Then that achieves the same goal. If they're ignoring clicks from you, and you're blocking their trackers, then they probably don't have a good profile on you, because whatever they do have is either old, poisoned, or both.

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