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I'm not sure how much you know about tracking cookies and the like but clicking on every ad on every page is not really going to help you. You are better off in

I'm not sure how much you know about tracking cookies and the like but clicking on every ad on every page is not really going to help you. You are better off installing a plugin like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct... or https://disconnect.me/ https://disconnect.me/. Those tools take away a lot of the tracking and profiling capabilities of ad networks. The other problem is that modern ad networks these days are pretty complicated beasts very much like stock exchanges where publishers and marketers come together to bid on the ability to serve ads on specific pages and to specific users. This means a lot of these networks gather and segment information by IP addresses and browser fingerprints. Those pieces of information are much harder to mask and you need to start using anonymizing proxies if you want to hide that information as well. So the bottom line is that all these tools already exist and they are much better at masking information than clicking on every ad possible.

alimoeeny 12y ago
I don't want to use an ad blocker because, I really want to support people who produce content and rely on ads (like youtubers ...).
- dkarapetyan 12y ago
  The tools I suggested do not block ads. All they do is take away the tracking and profiling capabilities. You'll still see plenty of ads but they won't follow you around since tracking capabilities are very strongly tied to being able to plop down cookies.
- MalcolmDiggs 12y ago
  Unfortunately, deliberately clicking the ads may get your favorite websites and youtubers banned from their content network. The network will see the abnormal increase in clicks and they'll blame the publisher and will pursue them for click fraud. So...this tactic might be counter-productive.

alimoeeny 12y ago

I don't want to use an ad blocker because, I really want to support people who produce content and rely on ads (like youtubers ...).

dkarapetyan 12y ago
The tools I suggested do not block ads. All they do is take away the tracking and profiling capabilities. You'll still see plenty of ads but they won't follow you around since tracking capabilities are very strongly tied to being able to plop down cookies.
MalcolmDiggs 12y ago
Unfortunately, deliberately clicking the ads may get your favorite websites and youtubers banned from their content network. The network will see the abnormal increase in clicks and they'll blame the publisher and will pursue them for click fraud. So...this tactic might be counter-productive.