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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)
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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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[+] -41 points 1 year 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. πŸ€”

Sending a request also uses bandwidth, you know.

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  • [–] 144 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    A basic GET request, even with a long querystring, will be negligible even on a 1998 dial-up connection.

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  • [+] -23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Right, but thousands of them, possibly every day? Could perhaps affect your data consumption on your phone e.g. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

    Edit: I got it guys, thanks.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You aren't terribly familiar with how much traffic we generate nowadays... are you? If we were still on 2G and isdn / dsl sure. You'd likely see a slight latency jump. On anything from this last decade+ ? Not a chance.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm not, am I. I hadn't done any calculations regarding this. It was strictly hypothetical, as you can probably tell from the question mark and πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ. πŸ‘

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'll be honest - you weren't really presenting your case in that way. Understand my confusion: you seemed pretty adamant about your concern with no backing data on it. Most people pick their hills with something to back them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not really a hill for me to begin with lol.

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

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

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  • [+] -30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Jesus, you got defensive quick and hard. Sorry I rustled you.

    https://lemmy.world/comment/16187642

    πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    lol

    furthermore: lmao.

    you've got to try a lot harder to "rustle" me, but I like your moxie for thinking you did, sport

    doing the math, even the cheapest phone plans that don't explicitly exclude data, nowadays include at least 1GB of data for free. Usually more. Almost any reachable amount of outbound requests to click on ads would barely put a dent in your data allowance.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Now the name calling. Cool, dude.

    I'll concede the data plan dent thing; I hadn't done any math regarding that. Thanks for clarifying that to me and everyone else!

    But you did say "none" so I just pointed out the fact that it's not none. It's some. I wasn't wrong to point that out. No matter how much of a stickler you find me for that.

    But that's no reason to post images implicitly depicting me to be some kind of fat nerd.

    You're a rude person. Autistic or not.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I'll concede the data plan dent thing; I hadn't done any math regarding that. Thanks for clarifying that to me and everyone else!

    I accept your concession, better luck next time.

    But you did say "none" so I just pointed out the fact that it's not none. It's some. I wasn't wrong to point that out. No matter how much of a stickler you find me for that.

    pedantry is pedantry, if you interject with "well ACKSHUALLY" over literally a couple kilobytes of data in this, the Year Of Our Lord 2025 where common storage device sizes are in the multiple terabyte range, and 100mbps down/10 up is exceedingly common, expect to be called one. It is functionally none, because it is not 1993.

    Autistic or not.

    can't even come up with your own insult for me, just gonna steal that sad attempt at bait from the other guy? how... underwhelming, must do better. 🀑

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    better luck next time.

    Huh?

    I accept your concession

    K.

    if you interject with "well ACKSHUALLY"

    Those are your words, not mine. πŸ˜›

    where common storage device sizes are in the multiple terabyte range,

    I was talking about data sent over a network, not stored on disk. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

    can't even come up with your own insult for me, just gonna steal that sad attempt at bait from the other guy?

    My god. I'm not "out to get you" here, this isn't Reddit, will you fucking relax, dude? I thought you said that you were autistic? Maybe I misinterpreted you. Maybe it was someone else.

    All good now? Ready to drop the insults? ❀️

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  • [+] -33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

    Are you autistic?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah.

    Is that a fucking problem?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is when you're being rude for no reason.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    That HTTP request would also show up in the advertisers web logs with your origin IP address.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I think we're far past caring about a website logging an IP address.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm past caring about giving my IP to a website that I want to use, but what this is doing is handing out your information to every single advertiser that is published on any page you visit. In some cases this plugin would match the definition of "leaking personal data".

    You do you though. I won't stop you.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Most people dont have static IPs. All the ads would see is web requests from random residential ips from a certain country.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't know about NZ (or wherever you are), but IP addresses for residential access in the US don't really change all that much. It's... concerning.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I thought the average was 7 days for a residential IP and when I searched it up it seemed like the average was 3 days. However I took note of my ip and its still the same as it was 6 days ago. Im now interested to see how long these ips are being leased out for.

    If it is longer than a week then I am fully wrong and spamming out your ip is a huge privacy risk.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What are they going to do? blacklist me and stop serving me ads?

    Oh no

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you care about your information and privacy, why are you giving them your information for nothing?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    You do have a point, but... It's not for nothing. It's to hurt the predatory ad industry. And what you give up isn't much: your IP address and likely the referral (so they know you visited website X that was serving their ad). It's up to you to decide whether that's an acceptable privacy cost to conduct this kind of guerilla ad warfare.

    It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don't think it's possible, though.

    edit: Just found out from their FAQ:

    Does AdNauseam respect the browser's private-browsing/incognito modes?
    Yes, AdNauseam does not collect or click Ads that occur on pages loaded in private-browsing or incognito windows, unless manually enabled by the user.

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