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Why not build a browser plugin that visits 5 random websites for each site you visit.
by soziawa 9y ago
Why not build a browser plugin that visits 5 random websites for each site you visit.
- monocasa 9y agoI feel like you could pull a 'natural flow' subset out.
- zrobotics 9y agohttps://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/ There you go. Not on the chrome extensions store, but works on chrome (according to their site, I can only vouch for Firefox). I had this question a while ago, and debated building my own, but laziness won out. Edit: I'm an idiot, didn't read that you specified random websites. Adnauseam just clicks on random ads to pollute marketing data.
- jsemrau 9y agoWhy are these people not creating spaceships, exploring the deep of the oceans, or curing cancer?
- periya 9y agoThere is no advertising money in those fields.
- mattkrause 9y agoLest you think this is an exaggeration, graduate students and postdocs make peanuts, who would be doing the cancer research, make peanuts. Starting salary for a postdoc is a bit less than $50k, and this is after 5+ years of grad school, during which you make even less (often $20-30k) One can expect to be a postdoc for 3-5+ years before becoming remotely competitive for an independent (faculty) position, and another 5 years before the job is relatively secure. The competition for these jobs—and the remaining industrial ones—is savage and unpredictable. This is bad for so many reasons: frantic people don’t do careful experiments or do good science, very smart people opt out all together and figure out how to make you click on ads instead, and a lot of time, money, and effort gets wasted in the churn. If you want more cancer research and less ad optimization, nag your reps to improve how we fund research!