Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking

• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Ah great

  it works [by] sending an HTTP request that registers as a “click” to the advertiser

  Uh, wait a minute. 🤔

  Sending a request also uses bandwidth, you know.

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  • Bourff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right, but thousands of them, possibly every day? Could perhaps affect your data consumption on your phone e.g. 🤷‍♂️

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      • Bourff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know of any data plan that limits on the upload. Caps are usually on the download side, and TFA says it does not download the server response.

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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  • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      lemmy.world/comment/16187642

      🤷‍♂️

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      • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        lol

        furthermore: lmao.

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    • StopJoiningWars@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      Are you autistic?

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      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah.

        Is that a fucking problem?

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      • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        what a rude thing to ask, especially considering I wasn’t talking to you.

        I’m gonna keep it that way, best of luck baiting someone else champ.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        lol I know right.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      so use a VPN? if you’re the sort of user using AdNauseam, you’re probably also the sort of user who already uses a VPN.

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      • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m behind SEVEN proxies!

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      Oh no

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• lumony@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for doing your part to spread the truth in this sea of lives and FUD.

  It’s clear that most people these days are proud consumers with more money than sense. All they care about is looking good in front of their consumerist friends, and they base all of their actions and decisions around what will support that ideology.

  As a kid, I thought useful idiots were rare. Now I see it’s the exact opposite.

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