It garbles advertisers’ data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can’t work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!
You know this is the good shit because when it first came out a few years back google was running a huge disinformation campaign against it. You’d search for “adnauseum” in google and the first result would be an article from some weird advertising company calling is “insecure” and “malware” without any actual argumentation behind those claims, while no other search engine returned that article (I lost the screenshots, so yall are just gonna have to take my word for it). They also delisted it from the chrome store for not discernible reason. They were afraid.
But nowadays I’m willing to bet that they figured out how to detect adnauseum’s fake clicks and filtering it out. Stuff like that needs a talented development team to keep it up to date.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Couple of issues I’m wondering about…
First, wouldn’t clicking on everything just make you easier to track?
Second, how much bandwidth would all this use?
archonet@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
the way it works is sending an HTTP request that registers as a “click” to the advertiser (thus costing them money), but then doesn’t actually let the browser download any content and fetch the webpage, basically pi-holes the ad and any attached tracking cookies. Combined with the fact that it does this to every ad, it would basically poison any click tracking.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah great
Uh, wait a minute. 🤔
Sending a request also uses bandwidth, you know.
lumony@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks for doing your part to spread the truth in this sea of lives and FUD.
It’s clear that most people these days are proud consumers with more money than sense. All they care about is looking good in front of their consumerist friends, and they base all of their actions and decisions around what will support that ideology.
As a kid, I thought useful idiots were rare. Now I see it’s the exact opposite.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I can’t find an answer whether the “click” is behind some obfuscation, or if the “click every ad” is the obfuscation step itself by attempting to poison the data. The latter may work but yes, may actually increase tracking. Wish that answer wasn’t so hard to find on their site.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did you look at the FAQ?
github.com/dhowe/adnauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adna…
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Also wouldn’t this be directing a ton of money to google? (or I guess any other ad provider)
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The advertisers are paying for the opportunity either way. Clicks cost them more money than just displaying the ad. Useless clicks cost them money for nothing.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
No, because it devalues their click through, as no sales will result from those clicks.
It’s kinda like printing money, there’s more of it, but the overall value hasn’t increased.
cageythree@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
In the short term, I would think so.
In the long run, it makes it less appealing for companies to advertise, because they would have larger costs while having less sales. That, in return, hurts Google as advertisers don’t want to pay as much anymore.
Or in short, it’s designed to hurt the system as a whole, not specific companies.