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there's an extension called "ad nauseum". this is it's goal. it doesn't seem to have destroyed the ad economy yet, but maybe if more people install it it will

• jesse_dot_id 1y ago
  Ahhh, interesting, hadn't heard of it. I think that an extension-based approach is too easy to mitigate, though. I think to be effective, it would need to be people clicking on the adds themselves, because it would be much harder to separate their traffic from legitimate traffic. When people are manually clicking ads, their traffic looks organic, whereas an extension clicking everything in rapid succession probably looks programmatic and would be trivial to filter out.