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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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[–] 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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