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Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data – digital “noise.”
- eep_social 3y agoSimilar (and of similar vintage) but in python: https://github.com/essandess/isp-data-pollution/ https://github.com/essandess/isp-data-pollution/
- recursive 3y agoThe "get the plugin" link is a 404.
- nxobject 3y agoThis reflects my assumptions more than anything else... my first impulse was to go look for the source, but it doesn't seem to be open-sourced either. (Of course, I shouldn't expect that.)
- xnx 3y agoShould probably have (2017) in the title. Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002995
- bigmofo 3y agoI agree. Also, the code repository has no changes since 2017 (at least on the default branch).
- elitepleb 3y agohttps://adnauseam.io https://adnauseam.io - clicking ads, so you don't have to.
- leach 3y agoThis looks very interesting
- anjel 3y agoThe Ad Nauseum plugin is probably more than 10 years old. In the age of advanced and largely inescapapble browser fingerprinting, is it still useful like it once was?
- hot_gril 3y agoHard to tell even 10 years ago how effective this strategy was. Google banned it from the Chrome extensions store, which at least means they felt threatened by the clicks, but that doesn't mean you're defeating the tracking.
- dngray 3y agoand a great way to give your browser a unique fingerprint so it can be tracked even further. Plugins like this are a very bad idea.
- Unai 3y agoHow effective could this be? Maybe if it was super popular, maybe integrated on some browsers like brave or opera, it might send a message, but otherwise, isn't it just a way to give money to ad companies?
- teolandon 3y agoI'm not the one giving money to ad companies. I'm causing ad companies to exchange money with ad providers for no reason at all.
- hot_gril 3y agoI used this for a while. Funny how it even has a "damage meter" estimating how many $ of ads I've clicked on the page. At some point Google started occasionally giving me captchas just when I searched stuff, saying they detected unusual behavior.
- someguy7250 3y agoIf everyone can band together and generate N fake clicks for every 1 real click, And provide N wrong Captcha answers for every correct answer, Then we might just be able to send a message to advertisers and those "data anal-lysts" Question is: Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things? What if I use a bot instead? (Maybe that's why the author eventually abandoned this project)
- JohnFen 3y ago> Question is: Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things? Liable? For what? You're literally doing nothing damaging or illegal.
- wkat4242 3y agoIf it's a buy now button or something it could be an issue. Also advertisers hate fake clicks on ads (they call it ad fraud) but they will blame the site owner so that's not really a problem.
- cassianoleal 3y ago> advertisers hate fake clicks on ads The question was if it's illegal, not if it drives advertisers mad. The whole point is to drive them mad. :)
- hot_gril 3y ago> Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things? If you count this, some sites might think you're a bot or otherwise hint that they don't want to serve you. I've had Google make me solve captchas occasionally because I was using Ad Nauseam.
- k310 3y agoI ran one once and it was a bit too noisy and got me banned (temporarily). Are they any better nowadays?
- rrherr 3y agoin a world where big data threatens to commodify our lives,. telling online surveys that i "Dont know" what pringles are constitutes Heroism https://twitter.com/dril/status/1061091401251745792 https://twitter.com/dril/status/1061091401251745792