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

• archonet@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m behind SEVEN proxies!

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        When was the last time you checked the length of your DHCP lease?

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      • Colloidal@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t know about NZ (or wherever you are), but IP addresses for residential access in the US don’t really change all that much. It’s… concerning.

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• FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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

        A split-tunnel VPN could do this, but it would require some advanced routing and awareness by the plugin to send the request down the other route. I think that would mean the plugin would have to have deeper hooks into OS to reach the IP stack which browsers usually don’t have, so there would be some security implications there for abuse/attack surface of the plugin.

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