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I've used https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/ for years. It's great. First, it hides (most of) the ads making the internet more tolerable. Then it "ope
by caseysoftware 3y ago
I've used https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/ for years. It's great.
First, it hides (most of) the ads making the internet more tolerable. Then it "opens" them in memory and clicks on ALL of them making your profile worthless.
The last time I pulled up my Google profile, it said I was a 18-99yo, both male and female, and was interested in EVERY topic they listed.
It works in both Brave and Chrome but isn't available in the Chrome Extension Store for some reason.. ;)
- blahyawnblah 3y agoIsn't this kind of unethical? There are plenty of people/companies running ads that are just trying to get some traffic and you're costing them money.
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- tourmalinetaco 3y agoAds are unethical. Loud annoyances plastered across the screen in a frail attempt to part me of my money after already stealing my time. Also Google is the one footing the bill, so if anything it’s unethical to not be running this.
- guilamu 3y agoMore importantly it's available for Firefox.
- gear54rus 3y agoCan you share the link where you've seen your profile. I wanna see if AdNauseam is as effective on my side.
- caseysoftware 3y agohttps://myadcenter.google.com/ https://myadcenter.google.com/ and https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy will show the stuff they share
- daed 3y agoI'd love to use this but is there any risk that this will get Google to flag me as a bot/malicious? I wanna make sure I can still pass captchas and don't screw anything up for testing on my dev machine.
- caseysoftware 3y agoI have not experienced this in any form and I build security, bot detection, and similar products.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago> isn't available in the Chrome Extension Store for some reason Obviously it's because “An extension should have a single purpose that is clear to users…”[0]. Given how "questionable" the reason is, I can't really think of a better endorsement. 0: https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html
- kyrofa 3y agoI hadn't heard of this, thank you! I'm giving it a shot now.
- autoexec 3y ago> I've used https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/ for years. It's great. No it isn't great. It's stupid and dangerous. It does nothing to make your data "worthless". You're only giving data brokers and the people who use them more highly valuable data to use against you. Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043547#39044239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043547#39044239
- l33t7332273 3y agoMaking the data inaccurate absolutely makes it worthless; it’s worth is in its accuracy.
- autoexec 3y agoData brokers do not care about how accurate their data is. At all. Not even a little. It's highly valuable to them no matter how inaccurate it is, and that data will be used against you even if it's entirely inaccurate.
- beanjuice 3y agoCan you elaborate about what you define as "used against you" even if it is entirely inaccurate? What is the use case of inaccurate data with which you are concerned?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoIt's in the comment they linked to. Good points, to be fair.
- baby_souffle 3y ago> Can you elaborate about what you define as "used against you" even if it is entirely inaccurate? Hypothetical: $company you're trying to use needs to "verify" you using $inaccurateData from $vendor. You're absolutely screwed if the verification questions you're asked are relying on the "polluted" answers Similar vein: if the "polluted" data indicates you might be gay or replublican or musilim or into some seriously unhealthy lifestyle choices like smoking and $someCompany decides that you're a smoker and therefore your too risky to insure. no data >>> polluted data.