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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 2 years 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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[–] 63 points 2 years ago (33 children)

That's not how IP addresses work.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What if we use a Visual Basic UI to hack the IP address by netmask?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Have it form connections to all the other browsers using the extension and they all send a click.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is the botnet itself breaking the law or is breaking the law with a botnet breaking the law?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    You can fake your IP. There isnt really any authentication at the IP level. Just make a packet and overwite the IP field.

    Edit: I was corrected. The TCP handshake requires you to have a valid IP you can respond from. So even though you can fake your IP, you can't use that to talk to most websites.

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

    I misremembered my internet class. Sucks that it made ya feel bad.

    Edit: and you can put whatever you want as your source IP at the IP level. Though idk how modern security deals with that. I know I was taught that that was a way to DoS attack, so I imagine it's protected against.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    If you just do it on your own computer, the packet will be already dropped by your own gateway. You can fake whichever address in your local subnet, but those are very likely remapped anyway in your gw to the one given by your ISP.

    If you would have access to the switch port used by your ISP in the Internet exchange point (IX), you would have more liberties in choosing the IP.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Nothing is random

    In bot cases like this you would have a proxy list that it “randomly” picks from

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    You would need to literally connect to a proxy and send the request through that proxy in order for ads to see an IP different than you own.

    Yes that is what was proposed, you’re the only one who seems unclear on it

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It does if it reports the URL to click home somewhere and users can opt in to pull the list to auto click.

    It would DDoS the ad servers. Muwhahahaa

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