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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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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good start. Now make a version that clicks each ad a random number of times from randomly generated IP addresses.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    That's not how IP addresses work.

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

    What if we use a Visual Basic UI to hack the IP address by netmask?

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

    Have it form connections to all the other browsers using the extension and they all send a click.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is the botnet itself breaking the law or is breaking the law with a botnet breaking the law?

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

    You can fake your IP. There isnt really any authentication at the IP level. Just make a packet and overwite the IP field.

    Edit: I was corrected. The TCP handshake requires you to have a valid IP you can respond from. So even though you can fake your IP, you can't use that to talk to most websites.

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

    I misremembered my internet class. Sucks that it made ya feel bad.

    Edit: and you can put whatever you want as your source IP at the IP level. Though idk how modern security deals with that. I know I was taught that that was a way to DoS attack, so I imagine it's protected against.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If you just do it on your own computer, the packet will be already dropped by your own gateway. You can fake whichever address in your local subnet, but those are very likely remapped anyway in your gw to the one given by your ISP.

    If you would have access to the switch port used by your ISP in the Internet exchange point (IX), you would have more liberties in choosing the IP.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nothing is random

    In bot cases like this you would have a proxy list that it “randomly” picks from

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

    You would need to literally connect to a proxy and send the request through that proxy in order for ads to see an IP different than you own.

    Yes that is what was proposed, you’re the only one who seems unclear on it

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It does if it reports the URL to click home somewhere and users can opt in to pull the list to auto click.

    It would DDoS the ad servers. Muwhahahaa

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

    Ad Networks use browser fingerprinting to detect duplicate clicks, which is tied to your hardware, system locale, installed fonts etc.

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

    Sounds like a solvable problem

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Chameleon add-on for Firefox, randomly rotates your browser, OS, screen size, timezone, device type, language, and other customizable parameters every x minutes.

    I've set it to do so every 5 minutes, and to omit desktop & tablet as device types (else some websites display the respective page) and timezones (messed up 2FA).

    I also disabled blackberry and windows phone from the manufacturer ID, that would have the opposite effect from obscuring me.

    For the rest of it, it's working great.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Tell me how, then, because I don't know how to get around the font thing. Everybody's computer has a different set of fonts, and blocking browsers from seeing what fonts you have installed would help identify you even more.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    A browser extension that limits webpages to default Windows fonts only would eliminate that factor from contributing to identification without flagging it as suspicious. A slightly more robust version could frequently cycle between multiple subsets of default Windows fonts. Say Windows comes with 100 fonts. So you could have thousands of configurations with different subsets of those.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Just" remove a random 2.5% of the fonts, a different random set per request (context).

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

    Just have everyone agree on a set of fonts to report and report those.

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