You don't see the ads, so you are blocking them and dilute the value of ads to begin with. Yes, it does waste your bandwidth. > I figure at least 20% of the pe

You don't see the ads, so you are blocking them and dilute the value of ads to begin with. Yes, it does waste your bandwidth. > I figure at least 20% of the people browsing the web would have to use the extension for it to make any difference to the ad networks, and it's probably higher than 20%. That's never going to happen. They have tried though: https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html So it means, they are worried about at least enough to bother. Now, looking at my stats I just don't see as many clicks as before. So perhaps, Google just fixed their backend code to detect these clicks and moved on without triggering the Streisand Effect by fighting against this project publicly further.