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https://adnauseam.io https://adnauseam.io - clicking ads, so you don't have to.

leach 3y ago
This looks very interesting
anjel 3y ago
The 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 ago
  Hard 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 ago
  and 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 ago
How 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 ago
  I'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 ago
I 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.
- 3abiton 3y ago
  Is it open source?
  - hot_gril 3y ago
    Yes https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam and it's a fork of the open-source uBlock Origin.
cj 3y ago
In most cases, using this tool will: 1) Increase revenue for the advertising companies you don't like 2) Cost advertisers a lot of money (some of who are probably companies you like) 3) Increases revenue for publishers with a ton of ads on their page It's not obvious to me how contributing to click fraud benefits you as the user. If anything, it benefits the ad companies by driving more revenue to them.
- joezydeco 3y ago
  4) Eventually the advertisers realize their ads are having less and less of an impact, and pull back on their spending.

This looks very interesting

The 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 ago
Hard 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 ago
and 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 ago

How 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 ago
I'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 ago

I 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.

3abiton 3y ago
Is it open source?
- hot_gril 3y ago
  Yes https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam and it's a fork of the open-source uBlock Origin.

cj 3y ago

In most cases, using this tool will: 1) Increase revenue for the advertising companies you don't like 2) Cost advertisers a lot of money (some of who are probably companies you like) 3) Increases revenue for publishers with a ton of ads on their page It's not obvious to me how contributing to click fraud benefits you as the user. If anything, it benefits the ad companies by driving more revenue to them.

joezydeco 3y ago
4) Eventually the advertisers realize their ads are having less and less of an impact, and pull back on their spending.