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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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[–] 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. 🤷‍♂️

    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 🤷‍♂️. 👍

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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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