- none
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.
- not in this way
- none
the way it works is sending an HTTP request that registers as a “click” to the advertiser (thus costing them money), but then doesn’t actually let the browser download any content and fetch the webpage, basically pi-holes the ad and any attached tracking cookies. Combined with the fact that it does this to every ad, it would basically poison any click tracking.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bourff@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A basic GET request, even with a long querystring, will be negligible even on a 1998 dial-up connection.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right, but thousands of them, possibly every day? Could perhaps affect your data consumption on your phone e.g. 🤷♂️
Bourff@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
archonet@lemy.lol 1 year ago
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 1 year ago
“I have drawn YOU as the soyjack and ME as the chad, therefore you lose the argument”
Are you autistic?
archonet@lemy.lol 1 year 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.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lol I know right.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That HTTP request would also show up in the advertisers web logs with your origin IP address.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 year ago
What are they going to do? blacklist me and stop serving me ads?
Oh no
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you care about your information and privacy, why are you giving them your information for nothing?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
I think we’re far past caring about a website logging an IP address.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
archonet@lemy.lol 1 year 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.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’m behind SEVEN proxies!
lumony@lemmings.world 1 year 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.