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Trying to block this is a losing battle. The whole privacy-first angle is so disingenuous, too. Is there a way we can just obfuscate / ruin our data with them?

Trying to block this is a losing battle. The whole privacy-first angle is so disingenuous, too. Is there a way we can just obfuscate / ruin our data with them? Like a tool or browser extension I can run that clicks / visits a bunch of random links and totally trashes which "cohort" Google thinks I belong in. I'd pay for this more than paying to opt-out. Then serve me all the ads you want.

flixic 5y ago
It speaks volumes that Google allows many ad blocking extensions in Chrome Web Store, but blocked an extension that was doing exactly that: https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html
- ec109685 5y ago
  Does that actually work? It seems like clicking on every ad would be easy to filter out.
  - sodality2 5y ago
    Probably, but it would "trash which "cohort" Google thinks I belong in"; there's really no reason to fool Google into putting you into a specific cohort as opposed to just a random/"broken" one; either way, your true cohort is obscured. Unless you were studying the impact of ads you receive based on cohort, like https://their.tube https://their.tube.
    - throwaway3699 5y ago
      More likely FLoC will place you in a cohort also full of other AdNauseam users.
  - thatguy0900 5y ago
    I remember reading about it on here a while ago and some Googler said that it was easily identified as automated clicking on their end, they have pretty sophisticated antifraud systems.
hahahasure 5y ago
I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet. Also there's an issue that bots are detected easily.
- dannyw 5y ago
  That's because Chrome banned it.
teitoklien 5y ago
Just don’t use chrome ? Or if you really like chrome Use a chromium browser that won’t implement cohorts , why bother feeding it disingenuous data instead of just not feeding it anything ?
driverdan 5y ago
Stop using Chrome.
drewmol 5y ago
https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/

flixic 5y ago

It speaks volumes that Google allows many ad blocking extensions in Chrome Web Store, but blocked an extension that was doing exactly that: https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

ec109685 5y ago
Does that actually work? It seems like clicking on every ad would be easy to filter out.
- sodality2 5y ago
  Probably, but it would "trash which "cohort" Google thinks I belong in"; there's really no reason to fool Google into putting you into a specific cohort as opposed to just a random/"broken" one; either way, your true cohort is obscured. Unless you were studying the impact of ads you receive based on cohort, like https://their.tube https://their.tube.
  - throwaway3699 5y ago
    More likely FLoC will place you in a cohort also full of other AdNauseam users.
- thatguy0900 5y ago
  I remember reading about it on here a while ago and some Googler said that it was easily identified as automated clicking on their end, they have pretty sophisticated antifraud systems.

hahahasure 5y ago

I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet. Also there's an issue that bots are detected easily.

dannyw 5y ago
That's because Chrome banned it.

teitoklien 5y ago

Just don’t use chrome ? Or if you really like chrome Use a chromium browser that won’t implement cohorts , why bother feeding it disingenuous data instead of just not feeding it anything ?

driverdan 5y ago

Stop using Chrome.

drewmol 5y ago

https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/