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

• Bourff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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• archonet@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

    lemmy.world/comment/16187642

    🤷‍♂️

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    • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      lol

      furthermore: lmao.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You definitely seem rustled.

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  • StopJoiningWars@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah.

      Is that a fucking problem?

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It is when you’re being rude for no reason.

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    • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, that image is pretty rude, too.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      lol I know right.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m behind SEVEN proxies!

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Most people dont have static IPs. All the ads see is web requests from random residential ips from a certain country.

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  • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

    Oh no

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Colloidal@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You do have a point, but… It’s not for nothing. It’s to hurt the predatory ad industry. And what you give up isn’t much: your IP address and likely the referral (so they know you visited website X that was serving their ad). It’s up to you to decide whether that’s an acceptable privacy cost to conduct this kind of guerilla ad warfare.

        It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don’t think it’s possible, though.

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