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AdNauseam is an extension that clicks ads at random in the background, thus polluting your user data. It was useful enough to get banned from the Chrome web sto
by Causality1 7y ago
AdNauseam is an extension that clicks ads at random in the background, thus polluting your user data. It was useful enough to get banned from the Chrome web store.
- floatingatoll 7y agoIt’s probably wise not to encourage interstate advertising fraud that the FBI might decide to investigate and arrest you for knowingly participating in. https://www.fastcompany.com/90273549/fbi-and-google-take-down-multi-million-dollar-ad-fraud-operation https://www.fastcompany.com/90273549/fbi-and-google-take-dow...
- Causality1 7y agoThey arrested people for making money by generating fake clicks on their own site. AdNauseam isn't ad fraud any more than running a web crawler bot is ad fraud.
- floatingatoll 7y agoI’m sure you’ll be fine, eventually - but that’s not guaranteed to stop them initially, or without a digital search of your entire computer, for example.
- Causality1 7y agoDo you have any evidence that any AdNauseam user has ever been arrested for ad fraud?
- SquareWheel 7y agoThey said they "might decide to investigate". That suggests it's a real possibility but not something that has previously happened.
- floatingatoll 7y agoI am neither a lawyer nor do I work for any criminal justice entity, apologies. You’ll need to discuss this with a lawyer if you’re materially concerned about this line of reasoning coming to pass.
- Causality1 7y agoI, personally, think you're full of it, but I'm offering you the opportunity to present evidence for your claim that using AdNauseam is "interstate ad fraud" that leads to arrests of its users. If I were the dev I'd consider those claims potentially libelous.
- darkpuma 7y agoPathetic FUD.