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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 3 months ago by joshchandra@midwest.social 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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[–] yool_ooloo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why can't uBlock Origin and this thing work at the same time?

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 48 points 3 months ago

because it's a modified uBlock Origin, so it's like running two ad blocking plugins at once, which isn't recommended. and if uBO blocks an ad first, AdNauseam won't be able to detect it and click on it.

anyway, I remember reading a long time ago how that approach isn't going to harm ad companies anyway, because [technical reasons that I don't remember at all].

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit redundant to run both at the same time, considering they both practically do the same thing and one is built off of the other.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

It's not even practically the same thing, it is exactly the same plugin as uBlock Origin, same UI, blocklists, etc but with added features.