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I wonder if I can hire a botnet to flag my competition out of business.
by YCode 9y ago
I wonder if I can hire a botnet to flag my competition out of business.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoYou could always hire one to drive up their fraudulent clicks, so I don't see why not.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI'll one-up you: can we crowdfund a botnet to flag all ads, from everyone?
- kodablah 9y agoYou jest, but the the goal of this "coalition" is to do good enough to not make you want to do that. Of course, the human review built in would preclude most of the large botnet attempts. An analogy: Bittorrent:Netflix::uBlock-Origin:Coalition-for-better-ads
- ThePadawan 9y agoThat seems like the thing that (back in my day) 4chan would be 100% behind.
- earenndil 9y agoLook up adnauseum. They're still 100% behind that.
- dooglius 9y agoEven they still have exceptions turned on by default [0]. [0] https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#what-is-the-effs-do-not-track-standard-and-how-it-is-supported-in-adnauseam https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#what-is-the-effs...
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoYou could, but if found out you'd probably be put to trial and your own business would be destroyed.
- newscracker 9y agoThis is exactly what came to my mind when I saw the headline. I'm sure this will happen, and a new arms race will ensue. Users are better off with uBlock Origin and such, instead of relying on advertising companies to handle ads better.