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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 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 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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