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I've often wondered why the ad blocker can't render the full page to some offscreen buffer to get the ad impression revenue for the site. It could even randoml

• LightHugger 2y ago
  this exists, it's called AdNauseam: https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/ It's banned from the chrome store
• ronsor 2y ago
  This is ad fraud, and while it's not a problem for the end user, it could get the site in trouble.
  • tcfhgj 2y ago
    Ad business self destruct
  • Terr_ 2y ago
    > This is ad fraud Or rather, a pattern of activity that may be easily mistaken for someone else committing ad-fraud. The fraudulent part comes from the agreement between the site-owner and the advertising-entity, where the first agrees to provide "organic" clicks for money. As an independent visitor, I'm not a party to that, and I never agreed to "only click on things when I'm sincerely interested in them", or even "only click on things after firmly observing and registering their presence in my mind", etc. If I were to use an army of bots to deliberately ruin someone's advertising budget out of pure spite, that's arguably a different kind of crime.
• catlikesshrimp 2y ago
  It is only diluting the ads. The paying businesses will notice higher cost per conversion, maybe individual print price will adjust accordingly, then the ad company will need to print even more ads for people who don't use adblockers. Or google finds a way to beat all adblockers everywhere.