Submitted 8 months ago by ReversedCookie@feddit.de to privacyguides@lemmy.one
I did not any research about it yet, but it’s recommended by “Firefox”… and we all now how worse this recommendations are sometimes. I would like to you if you guys knows anything abt it.
Their site: adnauseam.io
I have it running on my Firefox mobile browser, I like the idea of passively costing corpos money while not seeing ads.
That’s a good idea, I’m going to try it on my phone Firefox too.
I’ve found it actually makes it easier for advertisers to track me - I tried turning it off briefly, expecting completely random, useless ads, but instead saw disturbingly relevant ads, which basically reflected a profile of the sites I visited regularly, for example, ads for products sold by random obscure sites I visit regularly. Not only that, but the ads followed me across sites.
Not entirely sure why that was but my guess is that by simply allowing ads to load, you’re letting ad providers like Facebook/Google collect far more identifying information to improve their confidence that you’ve visited a given site, vs by not loading them all they know is their tracking/ad script was requested. Similarly, by clicking an ad you’re now also visiting an advertiser’s site, loading even more tracking.
For AdNauseum to achieve it’s stated purpose, it would also need to visit random sites to pollute as providers’ profiles on you.
Is there a way to run it in hard mode since it’s based off of uBlock?
I think it’s cool in concept, but it’s more of an activism tool than a convenience tool. I’m my experience at least, it didn’t block as much as I’d like.
Qvest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a cool concept in the sense that it obfuscates the user by filling the advertising algorithm with garbage so that profiling supposedly becomes more difficult. I don’t use it as I don’t need this feature and just want to block ads (uBlock Origin is the best content-blocker right now), but if you want the features, you can use it.
A plus is that it is also based on uBlock Origin