AdNauseam

“We need to proactively add buckets of junk data for advertisers - that's the only way to get them to stop collecting so much.”

“In my experience, this has basically 'neutered' personalised advertising for me”

“making advertisers pay for ads I didn't even see”

“If you want a sophisticated version of what you think this is, see Ad Nauseum”

“You can also run Ad Nauseum if you want to”

“It loads every ad, and clicks them without display them.”

“I use ad nauseam and pihole and I get nonesuch.”

“eventually stopped when I was getting captcha'd left and right”

“There is zero evidence Ad Nauseum does not work”

“Ad Nauseam is silly because ad companies know they are fake clicks and don't count them.”

“There's this really cool browser add-on called Adnauseum. It's a layer on top of uBlock Origin.”

“AdNauseam not loading the response to the "click" request makes it trivially easy to flag as fraudulent”

“you still pay the cost of downloading and running all the advertising JS and you still get tracked by the ad networks, all for nothing”

“How will it stop ads if it rewards them with money?”

“It doesn't block ads. It clicks them first, and then blocks them.”

“It's banned in the Chrome because it works”

“It clicks on all ads it hides, polluting metrics, wasting money.”

“Google did flag the Ad Nauseam Chrome extension as malware, so that was a definite abuse of power.”

“Install AdNauseam if you have unmetered connection and let it download as much data from them as it can.”

“gives ad networks massively more information and data points to track you than if you just straight up blocked the ads”

“give them false data on your profile using a solution like Ad Nauseam”

“If you poison their data, you are making the thing they sell less valuable”

“Google banning them but taking no action otherwise indicates to me and the thousands who use it that it is in fact effective”

“clicking on every ads leak your browsing history because in the URL there is a unique tracking ID”

“XHRs are trivially detectable by headers alone.”

“Wasting scammers money seems like it's targeting itself in the right direction.”

“This just, essentially, allows the adbroker (e.g. Google) to get more money from the business putting up the ad.”

“AdNauseam's fake clicks are so detectable that it's hard to imagine any ad networks are fooled by it.”

“Maybe people should install AdNauseam to make up for the lost clicks?”

“I guess AdNauseum works well”

“Ad Nauseum is much better than bare Ublock Origin for the same reason.”

“blocking is not as good as intentionally poisoning with something like Ad Nauseum”

“This makes my ad profile useless, and also costs them money.”

“It uses same uBlock under the hood, but it clicks all the ads.”

“If it didn't work, Google wouldn't have banned it well ahead of them banning the working version of uBlock Origin.”

“I prefer poisoning my ad profile instead of passively blocking with Ad Nauseam”

“Just use AdNausem (uBlock Origin mod) that clicks ALL THE ADDS.”

“going full send and using Ad-Nauseaum instead of simply using an ad-blocker”

“You can actively poison your ad profile by using AdNauseum”

“Even better, block them and click them all with the Adnauseam extension.”