I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

  • Jamie@jamie.moe
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    1 year ago

    I use adnauseum on my computer so it blocks the ads, but also sends a request simulating a click to the ad network. Based on average CPM, I’ve cost advertisers like $300 so far.

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        1 year ago

        Yep. The developer recommends to run it in stead of rather than alongside uBlock Origin, though, which is a dealbreaker for me 🤷

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          That’s because it’s built on top of uBlock. If you click on the extension it even has the uBlock logo. It’s literally just uBlock except it clicks on ads in the background. It even tells you how much projected money you cost them for clicking their shitty ads. And the websites gets paid. Only the advertisers get shafted.

          Honestly I’m astonished it’s not more popular.

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            1 year ago

            So you’re saying that it does literally everything uBlock does AND fucks over advertisers?

            If there’s an option to shaft specific sites run by people you dislike too, I’m in! 😄

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        1 year ago

        Yes but Google banned them from the extension store so if you’re using Chromium you need to sideload it.

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      1 year ago

      Interesting. But wouldn’t that still decrease my privacy? Advertisers still won’t know which ads I’m interested in, but they will know what sites I visit and can still build a profile from that data.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Some people care more about fucking advertisers than privacy, as long as they don’t have to suffer through the ads themselves. But yeah, blocking is more private than fake clicking.