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In theory an ad blocker could retrieve the ads in the background and simply not display them… I’m not sure any actually do currently, but if advertisers are silly enough to pay simply through network traffic it’s an option.

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gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s a Firefox addon that clicks all of the ads in the background in an attempt to pollute the info pool on what you actually want and also to cost people the click on their ad campaign

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- Ch0wW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s perfectly evil in a way! Mind if I ask you what is the extension’s name?
  
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  - th4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ad nauseam:
    
    addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/adnauseam/
    
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  - Mezzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    adnauseam.io
    
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- Augustiner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Can anyone please link it? Seems wild, but interesting…
  
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- spiderman@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  idm that until it clicks some scam ad
  
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