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

rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• diffusive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That, I guess, it’s the whole point. Stopping being tracked 🙂

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  • cageythree@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This feels like reverse psychology on a little kid.

    “That’s it, I’m not tracking you anymore! >:(”
    “Oooh nooo, what have I done! Oh how much I would wish to be tracked :(”
    “No, you won’t convince me to change my mind >:(”
    “Oh well, guess I’ll have to live without being tracked, what a shame that is.”

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They call it “click fraud”,

  No, click fraud is using botnets to click ads in your site to increase your revenue.

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  if enough people start doing it its effective

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not sure how true it was, but there was a YouTuber claiming that their videos were getting entirely demonetized because too many of their viewers had Ad blockers enabled. So even though 75% of people were seeing ads on the video, Google was keeping that ad revenue, withholding it all from the creator because 25% weren’t getting ads. The claim the youtuber made is that this will probably predominantly impact creators with a more tech savvy / privacy aware audience, resulting in less of that niche content.

    Anyway, this is anecdotal, but I wouldn’t put it past Google to pass the issue to the creators for the actions of their consumers, even though it’s not their fault.

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      google has way too much power. its threat to everything

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    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Creators who care about privacy should not support Google’s monopoly by using YouTube as their Platform of choice.

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      • DNU@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        legit, there are so many platforms out there, idc which one they use, but pretty please, just mirror your content. Why’s it so hard 😵‍💫. The group im referring to doesnt even have the “money ads” argument as what most small creators earn on yt is peanuts.

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• ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Throw in a dash of track-me-not (www.trackmenot.io) and maybe they’ll start ignoring your search queries too! Worst case my actual searches are so buried in the bs deciding what to market would be easier from my screen-name.

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  • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fascinating, thanks for sharing! What is the best, current Firefox fork of this one, if you know?

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it’s a browser extension for Firefox, not a fork of Firefox. Or did I misunderstand you?

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      • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I was reacting to its GitHub:

        This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork. This is the FireFox version of the project, for Chrome see github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome.

        So I’m wondering which fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could’ve been clearer; my bad.

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    can confirm. You know those ‘google rewards’ things? they slowly stopped going for the results from trackmenot lol

    it was nice to get $1 a month off my VPN subscription lol

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• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Then that achieves the same goal. If they’re ignoring clicks from you, and you’re blocking their trackers, then they probably don’t have a good profile on you, because whatever they do have is either old, poisoned, or both.

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