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IMO, this is a bit much.
It's one thing to block ads, it's another thing to essentially participate in an ad fraud scheme. If this simply hurt Google, I would have no issues (they are corrupt criminals, an American oligarchic institution), but you also risking harming independent sites that have done nothing wrong.
You incorrectly use the term ad fraud, which addresses advertisers themselves automating clicks on their own links to generate fake income. There is nothing wrong with people-with-no-corporate-interest who click.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard, you'd have to be deranged to want an extension clicking random shit.
Edit: I've actually read it now and while not so bad, I still wouldn't use this on a computer that has my stuff on it.
Why can't uBlock Origin and this thing work at the same time?
It's a bit redundant to run both at the same time, considering they both practically do the same thing and one is built off of the other.
I've used this for a while. Also, I love filling out corpo surveys because I feed them bad data. It's the little acts of chaos.
Another great extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fake-data-haterapps/
If they want real information, they can pay me, and even then, well... :) Don't work for free.
Just curious- if ads are for something illegal, couldn't this expose me to liability for theoretically "clicking" it from my IP/device? And if ads are for something unsavory ( like a "chat with local cougars" site or something similar), wouldn't they start to deliver me more such ads, thinking, wow this IP is the only one clicking every sex chat ad, send them more!
