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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 joshchandra@midwest.social 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!

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 77 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

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

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[+] victorz@lemmy.world -30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

https://lemmy.world/comment/16187642

🤷‍♂️

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 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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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 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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[–] archonet@lemy.lol -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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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago*

better luck next time.

Huh?

I accept your concession

if you interject with "well ACKSHUALLY"

Those are your words, not mine. 😛

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

I was talking about data sent over a network, not stored on disk. 🤷‍♂️

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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