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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 2 days 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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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When Google can't extract money from you that's fraud!

[–] lumony@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They can still get money from this. In fact, they get more money from this than with uBlock.

They recognize how it undermines the digital advertising system, so they did everything in their power to get rid of it before it takes off.

We really should be recommending adNauseam instead of uBlock.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OK.. If trust is bro, then they won

But I ain't no middle schooler, so you need to explain like I am 5 how this solution is in fact superior to uBlock

Is there any proper research on this?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours 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.

[–] lumony@lemmings.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They can still get money from this. In fact, they get more money from this than with uBlock.

They recognize how it undermines the digital advertising system, so they did everything in their power to get rid of it before it takes off. They're fighting a generational war and don't want us to even be aware of the tools we have to fight back.

We really should be recommending adNauseam instead of uBlock.