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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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[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What are they going to do? blacklist me and stop serving me ads?

Oh no

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you care about your information and privacy, why are you giving them your information for nothing?

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You do have a point, but... It's not for nothing. It's to hurt the predatory ad industry. And what you give up isn't much: your IP address and likely the referral (so they know you visited website X that was serving their ad). It's up to you to decide whether that's an acceptable privacy cost to conduct this kind of guerilla ad warfare.

It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don't think it's possible, though.

edit: Just found out from their FAQ:

Does AdNauseam respect the browser's private-browsing/incognito modes?
Yes, AdNauseam does not collect or click Ads that occur on pages loaded in private-browsing or incognito windows, unless manually enabled by the user.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don’t think it’s possible, though

Potentially possible, but I agree, likely not worth the effort.