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AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking (adnauseam.io)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (40 children)

none

Ah great

it works [by] sending an HTTP request that registers as a "click" to the advertiser

Uh, wait a minute. 🤔

Sending a request also uses bandwidth, you know.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (15 children)

Okay, fine, not enough to matter. Are you satisfied with that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

"I have drawn YOU as the soyjack and ME as the chad, therefore you lose the argument"