Image Okay, fine, not enough to matter. Are you satisfied with that?
- 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.
archonet@lemy.lol 2 months ago
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
archonet@lemy.lol 2 months ago
lol
furthermore: lmao.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
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?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah.
Is that a fucking problem?
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It is when you’re being rude for no reason.
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.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, that image is pretty rude, too.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lol I know right.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That HTTP request would also show up in the advertisers web logs with your origin IP address.
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.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I’m behind SEVEN proxies!
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
I think we’re far past caring about a website logging an IP address.
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.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Most people dont have static IPs. All the ads see is web requests from random residential ips from a certain country.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 2 months ago
What are they going to do? blacklist me and stop serving me ads?
Oh no
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you care about your information and privacy, why are you giving them your information for nothing?
Colloidal@programming.dev 2 months 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.
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.
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. 🤷♂️
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.
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.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months 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 🤷♂️. 👍