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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 day 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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[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This would just give money to the advertisers.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 107 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This transfers money from the advertiser to the advertising agency, without creating a sale for the advertiser. This devalues the services of the agency.

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still don't want to give those fuckers money. If I just use uBlock, the ad is never seen, thus no sale is made and the slimy ad company gets money.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago

Totally, it's up to you. The idea for fake-clickers is the long game: the marketers think they're landing clicks over months or possibly even years, but ~~will~~ may slowly realize (gotta account for the stubborn ones) that it's ineffective and eventually pivot to different approaches, hopefully ones that involve less tracking (I can't imagine what any worse approach could be, at least).