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Like adblock, but it clicks on everything in the background. Hurts the companies, makes ad companies' stats less reliable, and stops companies from building up a good profile of you (they can't tell who you are if you registered an interest for literally everything)
uBlock Origin is getting a lot of posts (and for good reason, that shit is great), but one I really love is AdNauseam, it not only blocks ads, but it reports a click signal to the ad itself so that your ad profile gets fucked up and the data received by advertisers is meaningless! In fact, it worked so well that google decided to block adnauseam from their store. You can still get it of course, but you need to enable developer mode. I wish it were more popular because this doesn't just block ads, but it actually fucks with advertisers business model in ways they really can't counter.
A good one is AdNauseam. It is an ad blocker that automatically clicks every single ad it blocks in the background for you. Adds that extra bit of confusion to the trackers to boot.
Wrong. Ad Nauseam is praxis.
It still loads ads and creates impressions, it just hides them from view. So the ad companies think you've viewed and clicked on every ad, which means that if they pay out per view or click, you're not taking revenue from the people who sell ad space, only from the ad agencies.
There's also AdNauseam which is a fork of uBlock Origin but "clicks" on the ads in the background so the websites still get their money and you don't have to disable the ad blocker to "support" a website. That's why Google banned it from the store and you have to install it manually.
If you want to extract your revenge on ads in general then you can use https://adnauseam.io/ it's a browser plug that works in the background clicks on every ad on a site. Cost the advertisers money and confuses tracking cookies, so targeted ads don't work.
There are extensions to help too.
Adnauseum works ontop of ublock, clicking literally every single blocked ad to throw off trackers.
Mozilla's Track This website will literally open 100 tabs in your browser based on generic 'profiles' like an 'Influencer' or a 'Doomsday Prepper', similarly to throw off ad trackers.
I think it's hilarious.
I've used ad nauseum. Google banned it from Chrome, but you can still manually install it. Basically it tricks ad spammers into thinking you loaded/clicked the ads. It was giving them bad metrics on their adsense.
True but assuming my experience is a good estimate, most sites I've visited in the EU did this 'opt-out' setup. I've mostly stopped checking the settings and hope that Ad Nauseam is feeding them shit data.
On Adblock
Can I hijack this top comment to show everyone... Ad Nauseum! (based on ublock origin) It clicks ads in the background, so you don't have to.
In the short term, this means that the websites you visit get money. In the long term, this kills online advertising by making a click practically worthless.
Is this ethical? IDK.
On Adfly
Other way people could make money is patreon/a self hosted download link with regular google ads which are less likely to be browser-destroying.
Instead of complaining about adfly, why don't we find a solution?
If you really want to send advertisers a big "fuck you" while at the same time supporting the sites you visit, you could always try https://adnauseam.io/.
If effectively blocks ads the same as ublock origin, but also registers a click on each one silently in the BG. I just found out about it today while toying with the idea of building something similarly myself and I love the idea of it. Can't make any claims as to how well it works yet though, as I've just installed.
AdNauseam goes a bit further than TrackMeNot (it doesn't simulate searches and browsing though, only ad clicks), and is also a proper blocker being based on uBlock Origin. They are both projects of Daniel C. Howe et al. You should use both! They even have matching icons in your toolbar!
> As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
Politics and various forms of government interference certainly played their part but I feel like it was when the internet decided advertising would be its default revenue stream that online freedom was first lost.
The good news is that there's actions we can take right now. For example, ad nauseam
>AdNauseam is a free browser extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from tracking by advertising networks. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying users' discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and facilitate bulk surveillance agendas.
Unlike ad blocking obfuscation doesn't just limit advertisers' data, it makes their data worthless by invisibly clicking all the ads.
>As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
Don't wait for your reps to rep you. They don't work for us. With ad nauseum you're taking matters into your own hands. Essentially giving the finger to the industry that lobbied those senators in OP.
a lot of people say the best adblocker is ublock origin, but i know one better. Ad Naseum. instead of just hiding ads, it pretends to click them, which costs the advertisers a ton of money. it wastes their ad fund, which means they can serve fewer ads to everyone, not just you.
furthermore, it helps scramble the data they collect about you. they might have a pretty good picture of your demographic. but if you start clicking on everything, they start to have no clue who you are, because its just random noise. they cant target ads anymore.
this is how we fight back. they do weird shit to make money in the background where we dont see it, so we have to flip the script and start spending their money where they cant keep track of it.
If you need a red-pilled web browser there is the Brave web browser.
However, I use Firefox with ad nauseam. What it does is it automatically clicks on every advertisement on the page, before blocking them. If everybody used it, it would absolutely destroy Google Ads. Sure, companies would get more clicks, but then they would find out the clicks are useless. If you want to help take down google get the ad nauseam extension. They banned it from the Chrome extensions site:
blocks adds - users happy
clicks ads, generates traffic - website owners happy
obfuscates and destroys the targeted advertising model -
big data company unhappy(Google Facebook and others)
I see this as an absolute win , not only is it able to block adds but are able to fight back against targeted advertising (which has now advanced to almost creepy level)
Google has banned it on chrome (obviously)but firefox recommends it , so no trust issues
I highly doubt everyone will know about this to be able to use it , heck many people still don't know about the existence of add blockers as a browser extension, and regarding the point that adds will cost more(even if slightly) , I forgot where that was my problem
so basically anyone who knows about it can use it , if they wanted to
for more info
I fucking love ublock origin. There is another blocker that is built on ublock. Seems like Google fucked with their code to prevent users from installing this and are now expanding it to all adblockers now.
Check out AdNauseam. It's an ad-blocker that clicks every ad on a page behind the scenes with the intent of obfuscating the data collected on you. Apparently effective enough that Google removed it from the Chrome marketplace for a while.
Gonna link https://adnauseam.io/
Hides/blocks ads, and also clicks on them without opening the link on your browser. Cool if you want to screw up your advertiser profile + make them pay for a click that didn't lead to a sale
Edit: Also, I have not gotten a youtube ad with this, so I think it's blocked instead of hidden. So probably dont need to worry about scummy youtubers getting their revenue.
Leave a fake trail mixed with your real trail. AdNauseum "clicks" on ads as though you clicked through. This makes the ad hosts think you like basic stuff like dog food and coffee, and it diminishes the value of a click, and it does so in a way where it pits the ad network against the content creator because they have different opinions about to handle your browser's fake click.
You could go on Facebook and Like Uggs, the Brooklyn Tigers, receiving gay sex, and flipping your pillow over to get to the cold side, even if you're not enthusiastic about those things. Then something else on Twitter. And something else on another platform.
It's hard to get a company to erase their library of your data. It's easier to "poison" your personal data store by adding bullshit. Then whenever they're targeting you it will be less effective.
I use Ad Nauseam. "clicks" ads for you to support the site, blocks them from appearing, and creates a ton of noise that makes it harder for ad companies to track you. Win win win.
https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
>For those who want something a little more lightweight, there are a number of useful browser extensions that do not encrypt your data like a VPN does, but use other methods to avoid tracking and search profiling by ISPs/advertisers. One option is TrackMeNot, which is a browser extension for both Chrome and Firefox that runs in the background and sends periodic search queries to different popular search engines that essentially serve to hide your own internet traffic in a sea of random searches on random sites, preventing corporations from tracking your browsing habits.
>Another option similar to TrackMeNot is AdNauseam, which works by clicking on every single blocked ad at on every site you visit in the background, which obfuscates your browsing patterns, much like TrackMeNot. As of January 2017, however, AdNauseam has been banned on Chrome. C'est la vie. It's still available on Firefox and Opera though.
From the stickied post at /r/keepournetfree
"Attack" is a strong word, it's just explaining their "privacy" policy in human terms. If you want to read about a real "attack" on Facebook (and online advertising generally), check out AdNauseum. It's a chrome extension that quietly clicks on ads in the background at random, so that advertisers are fed bogus data about the effectiveness of their ads. It was actually banned from the chrome store for being too aggro :)
AdNauseam is a fork of uBlock and they may have changed enough that a policy was violated. However, looking at their Privacy Policy,
>In order to make it harder for these networks to make meaningful predictions about you, AdNauseam simulates clicks on the advertisements served to you. - accessed 2017/1/5 21:03
I'm pretty sure Google has strict policies against code that clicks advertisements since it has in the past when it was exploited in the early ad days to fraudulently collect money for ads on websites no one actually visited.
That is just one thought and to give developers the benefit of the doubt, if the issue is a correctable one and you are in good standing, apps and extensions have returned.
if you want a great ad block that still makes money for your favorite content creators and website use this ad block https://adnauseam.io/
It blocks all ads and clicks on every ad it see's while disabling the ad from any code running.
https://adnauseam.io/ is better.
its basically identical to ublock, but with some extra features. it randomly fake clicks some of the ads in the background (you still dont see them). this wastes the advertisor's money and the platform's money. it also scrambles any kind of demographic profile the data collection agencies have on you, because for some reason, "you" are just as likely to click on ads targeted at all demographics. you gain back some privacy by sending them more noise than data.
https://adnauseam.io/ is an adblocker (based off uBlock Origin I believe) that pretends to click on ads as it blocks them. You can install it easily on Firefox, might be more complex on Chrome because Google's entire model is advertising and they blocked it from their store.
wew lad, looks like someone is shitting their pants that no one is buying this bullshit. Upload your videos to vid.me or another alternative. Use duckduckgo instead of google. Also, install the ad nauseum adblocker to defund google. https://adnauseam.io/
this actually exists, check out AdNauseum.
The idea is that it works on top of your adblocker, everytime it encounters an ad, it "clicks" on the ad before blocking it. that way it registers as an ad view.
The benefit is that advertisers can't track you based on your ad preferences. Ad networks personalise ads based on what you've clicked on, but when you click on literally every ad then that data becomes meaningless.
Also, if enough people use this extension, advertisers are gonna get a whole bunch of "useless" clicks which will help devalue ads in general.
I used to be ok with online ads. I could ignore them well enough. Then they started flashing, lying, making noise, and using significant resources. So I blocked online ads, automating my ignoring process.
I was satisfied with simply blocking ad networks and tracking, but Chrome and ad agencies decided to wage war. So now I will actually fight back. You want me to clicks ads? Ok. I will automate the process and automatically click all the ads ( https://adnauseam.io/ ) inside a vm that surfs the web randomly 24/7. You want to serve me gigantic random video content on news sites and YouTube ads? Ok, I will trigger thousands of downloads a minute for your video ads, hope you can afford it. Don’t worry, I’m not trying to knock you offline, I just really believe in your preferred methodology of delivering ads.
This is an adblocker mostly based on ublock Origin, but it differs by silently clicking on every ad it detects, which obfuscates any advertising profile Google or other advertising giant, which further protects your privacy.
Pale Moon it is not. The maintainer of Pale Moon abused a feature intended to block malware to block an extension he personally disapproves of. This extension, a fork of uBlock Origin which clicks ads for you, was understandably removed from the Chrome Store as well. For some reason, though, big bad Mozilla has left it alone.
Yeah its a browser addon just like adblock. https://adnauseam.io/ is their webpage but you can find it on google easily. You click on "Install AdNauseam 3.5" and install it like any other extension. It's the best counter for asshole design that I have seen :D
besides being a way to fight back the https://adnauseam.io/ adon is a nice adblocking tool.
spez: welp off to sleep while my computer does all my work without me even asking.
Install the browser plugin ad nauseam
>As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
ad nauseam is effective enough that google banned it from the chrome store. fortunately you can still install it in under 2 minutes :)
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on-Chrome-Without-Google's-Permission https://adnauseam.io/
I've found that sort of stuff doesn't work very well, it's easy to break (itself and the website you're reading) and they're liable to not be updated eventually.
MuteTab is my current solution. I don't care about the ads since I have ublock/adnauseam to block the most nefarious and without the sound the ads don't really impact my browsing at all.
Default mute every tab unless whitelisted and it's incredibly easy to just unmute a tab.
pretty scary that you could so easily accidentally click an ad considering the reports of malware from their ads.
I would recommend at the very least installing an adblocker. I recommend https://adnauseam.io/ (even better than ublock origin, imo!) but really, i think its worth considering moving another site, because no adblocker is perfect. why take the risk?
https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
I've been thinking of something like this I could run on a raspberry-pi that I just leave connected to my cable modem at home all day. It'd be great to develop some sort of obfuscation-box script that could be run on a raspberry-pi that was easily deployable—similar to what pi-hole already does.
if it's easy to install, and you don't really have to think about it once it's set up, then more people will use it.
We need better tools to fight back. Tor, VPN, etc. are great & all, but have their drawbacks and aren't foolproof, aren't specifically designed to stop ISP tracking, and tend not to be usable by "my mom".
So the ISPs are tracking our usage data. There's a maxim in comp sci regarding data analysis - "garbage in, garbage out", which is essentially the basis for ad nauseum
As a currently-unemployed S/W Consultant, I'm taking it on myself to start a FOSS project to do exactly this - inject fake traffic into the ISP stream. Early design thoughts are that it will run as a background service, and generate "fake" traffic by having real internet conversations with various sites/services the actual user may or may not use. Injecting enough data should disguise the real data, and theoretically devalue the resultant analysis.
And if there's enough interest here, I'm happy to share progress. (I've almost settled on which language I'm going to use at this point, and have even decided I'll use git with it!).
You can use Adnauseam (Built on uBlock Origin) to add some noise on the ad tracking.
It'll click on every ad you encounter.
There's also TrackMeNot, which will search random words it gathered (You can set a blacklist) to add noise to your search engine search (It searches on all major engines, not just Google)
I like https://adnauseam.io/
It blocks it like uBlock and clicks on everything in the background. The signal to noise in my advertising profile is all noise.
I have "clicked" on $21,325 of ads this month, but never seen one.
Poisoning your own data is totally a thing. I use two extensions for this.
The first, adnauseum, "clicks"* every ad it encounters. This screws up data analytics overall since it makes your data point an outlier that needs to be removed from data sets you're included in and costs stakeholders money.
The second, TrackMeNot performs random searches in search engines (there's a whitelist of terms it uses). This has the effect of spoiling your search history, and makes analysis of your traffic more difficult.
Maybe the solution isn't to stop tracking data (because obviously companies won't stop), or stop trying to secure data (because clearly that's not possible if service providers and/or manufacturers aren't compliant), but to go the route of the AdNauseam extension and flood providers with bad data.
But I don't know anything about cellular technology. Would there be any possible way to ping a cell tower where you aren't? Or at least, to send a log of a ping to a cell tower where you aren't?
tbh, if I encounreted such a website, I would go on it. With Chrome. And adNauseam[0], as a way to hurt the publisher. I'm an asshole, though. want to annoy me, on purpose ? I will fuck your bottom line as much as I can.
[0] - https://adnauseam.io/
Go on the offensive. AdNauseam is based on Ublock Origin, but it clicks a configurable percentage of the ads it finds while it's blocking them...so it's basically devaluing the ad networks. People are paying for those clicks but nobody is watching.
Ads are where Google gets the vast majority of it's money.
Használj AdNauseam-ot, válogatás nélkül rákattint minden ilyesmire amellett hogy el is rejti. 2 hónap alatt meggyőzte a google analytics-et, hogy egy kis péniszű süket(?) fideszes vagyok, aki weboldalakat üzemeltet és imád főzni. Fun!
This is designed to do that. It clicks ads and closes the results instantly in an attempt to obfuscate any meaningful results to Google about you.
“Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.”
Wait. Do you not have an ad blocker? Or just mobile things?
https://adnauseam.io/ for you on desktop. Passive countereconomics? Maybe? Depends on what exactly the effect of "spam clicking ads while hiding them" is
Seems like it clicks the ads in the background fucking with the algorithm to tailor ads to you and at the same time blocking the ads. Its built atop of ublock. Apparently it's a pain to run because Google fucked with their code and are now expanding it to other adblockers.
This already exists in the form of AdNauseam, which is based on uBlock Origin. It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it has much of an effect.
Once you click enough AdSense ads, your clicks probably stop counting. If AdSense remembers you by your IP address (and nothing else), you could use a VPN to mask your IP with a different one, which would let you get more clicks in. But this would also stop working after enough clicks, so you'd have to be constantly cycling IP addresses to get more clicks. Not only would you run out of IPs eventually, but you may end up hurting an innocent site by making it look like they're generating fake AdSense clicks.
There's another extension called TrackMeNot, which searches Google for random things to try and hide your real searches. This one is interesting too, but I think it's better to just not use Google if you don't want them to know your search history.
Adnauseam does a good job too.
It is a free browser extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from tracking by advertising networks. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying users' discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and facilitate bulk surveillance agendas.
uBlock Origin is basically the standard.
https://adnauseam.io/ is a tiny bit better, imo. basically its exactly like Ublock, like literally a copy/paste of most of the code, but ad nasuseam also sends fake clicks to the ad companies (you still dont see them, it happens in the background. this wastes their money, so they can afford to send less ads to other people. it also confuses the algorithms that track you. since its clicking on all ads, or some of the randomly, the algorithm loses track of what kind of stuff you are interested in. it cant guess your age or interests anymore, which makes it even less valuable to advertise to you.
> As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile. > > AdNauseam is a free browser extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from tracking by advertising networks. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying users' discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and facilitate bulk surveillance agendas. > > AdNauseam joins a broader class of technical systems that attempt to serve ethical, political, and expressive ends. In light of the industry's failure to self-regulate or otherwise address the excesses of network tracking, AdNauseam allows individual users to take matters into their own hands, fighting back against unilateral surveillance. Taken in this light, the software follows an approach similar to that of TrackMeNot, employing obfuscation as a strategy to shift the balance of power between the trackers and the tracked.
i totally bet they just installed adblock plus without realizing that companies can just pay them to have ads bypass the filter
on the other hand, i have adnauseam installed, which works like ublock but also clicks every ad it hides, wasting the companies' money and screwing with ad tracking.
fight back, fellas. don't let the corporations win
As far as I can tell, Brave is pretty much just Chromium plus an ad platform, plus some built-in ad blocking (gotta extort the advertisers by blocking their ads so they pay for placements with BAT) and support for Tor.
The main thing which puts me off is the ad platform part, which despite being opt-in, kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth with regard to the philosophy of its creators. I would rather have a browser that takes a more adversarial approach to advertisers.
I block all ads, but configure AdNauseam, which is a modified version of uBlock Origin, to automatically simulate clicking on a fraction of the ads that it blocks. Making it a small fraction rather than the default setting of "always", means that it's possibly hard for the ad networks to filter my clicks out statistically, and hopefully they end up paying the content creators I frequent. Ultimately, I'd like them to go away altogether and be replaced by systems of patronage. I don't mind paying for things that I enjoy, especially if that means that other people get access to them for free.
That's one of the things which made me really like PoE's model in the first place.
> The extension was blocked from Google Chrome store (with a very unclear explanation)
That's pretty obvious since it interferes with Google's own data collection service. You can still get it directly from Admauseam's website while the Firefox version is still alive and well.
I'd probably use Adnauseam's approach to this problem instead of Mozilla's, though.
>you can install the Who Targets Me browser extension and help make Facebook’s election ads more transparent.
That may be interesting, but it's not a way to 'fight back'. The real way to fight back is to either install uBlock Origin and just block those ads in general. Or corrupt Facebook's targeting database by installing https://adnauseam.io/ or https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ or something like that (welcome to post other suggestions!)
>False amplification in social networks is another issue that’s difficult to spot for users. Try out the botcheck.me add-on for your browser to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.
Ok I went to the botcheck.me website:
>We use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.
They don't even know how to spell properly.
AdNauseum - It clicks ads for you but does not show them. There is a research paper published by the authors which explains their obfuscation process, but I can't seem to find it. The add-on was banned on the google web store, but it is still there on Firefox.
Yea, this is what I ended up doing.
Using ad nauseam, a fork of ublock, I just select the chat box and block it.
I wish there's a more comprehensive list of javascripts that can be blocked to cleanly sanitize reddit.
Yeah guys, instead of using an archive to fuck over eventhubs, just use incognito with https://adnauseam.io/, which will just fuck over their servers, not give them ad revenue, and may even potentially have advertisers stop using their site altogether. Win/win all around.
I also recommend installing Adnauseum too, it's an adblocker that also clicks adds silently so it generates false impressions, so that the marketing data they get will be less useful.
Well, it is actually, I didn't mean to give off a negative outlook as a whole. Not necessarily with FB but any advertising/collection company. Not exactly promoting Adnauseam Blocker but there's generally good info on their page about some forms of this if you want to read about it https://adnauseam.io/
The web is international. If you make it illegal in one place, nobody else really has to care. Also, getting a judgment against somebody requires monetary damages. Are you really going to bother suing people for 5 cents? Is the court really going to bother with a trial for such an amount?
Have also in mind that those people are your own readers/customers. If you give them the impression they might get sued for showing up at your site and not behaving properly there's an easy solution to them: not showing up at all.
Also, ad blockers are the more optimal solution really. Because if I can't block ads, there's the nuclear option of AdNauseam. AdNauseam follows the idea that if you can't block ads, you can automate ad impressions and clicking. Rather than not viewing ads, pretend you've seen and clicked on everything. Effectively the mass adoption of such a solution would completely destroy the ad market because it'd be impossible for advertisers to tell how many impressions and clicks they really got. All data would be under permanent suspicion of being completely fake.
Instead of having people click through ads, just install something like Ad Nauseam (https://adnauseam.io/) to click the ads and get everyone to be more aware of scams. The scammers will have deep pockets from the people that fall for their tactics.
Ublock origin is good but I prefer adnauseum , it’s a ublock origin fork and has all its functionality but it clicks on all the ads in the background this confusing ad providers on what your actual interests are and paired with sponsor block it’s the perfect YouTube setup
AdNauseam is good, it's based off of uBlock origin, but it makes the advertisers think you've clicked every ad you can see. It messes with their tracking, which is always fun.
On my computer, I use AdNauseam which automatically clicks on the ads while also blocking them from being shown. The website makes money, I don't see ads, it's the best of both worlds.
If you feel inclined to add to the headaches for ad executives - consider AdNauseam It spoofs an ad click and the blocks it all anyways.
I think the days are numbered for their current business model. (But then again...I thought that years ago already.) Either way...I'd feel less guilt for investing in oil or tobacco than Facebook or Google at this point.
You don't have to click.
Ad Nauseam sends a fake request to view the ad, then ignores the server's response. There are some downsides compared to a typical adblocker- it doesn't increase performance since the ads are still loaded, just invisible. But the upsides are awesome: The primary purpose is to pollute your user data profile with meaningless nonsense, so sites like Facebook don't know what you're actually interested in. But it also counts as an ad impression, so it still supports creators and shifts the cost to the people making the ads.
Not exactly the same, but have you heard of adnauseam?
> As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
as an alternative, check out: https://adnauseam.io/
basically, it has the same backend, works the same way. you can do the same manual blocking of elements or filters, etc... will be extremely familiar to any adblock/ublock user.
BUT, it also sends fake clicks to the ads. you dont see them, but the advertiser and their marketing partner think you clicked it. they have to pay A LOT more for a click (which suggests interest and engagement) than they do just to serve ads that get ignored.
this wastes their money, meaning they will be able to serve fewer ads to the entire public! you help block ads for everyone!
this also makes the ad serve company look really bad, even shady, as a bunch of ads, especially clicks, that would normally produce a sale end up resulting in no sale at all. a total waste. it starts to look like a bot scam by the ad serve company.
as a bonus, it can add noise to the demographic and marketing data about you. they collect info about you based on browsing habits, can reasonably guess things like age, race, income level, hobbies, and so on...but when you suddenly "click" on everything, there is no more discernible data. in a way this increases privacy.
its basically the internet ad version of dealing with telemarketers by feigning interest and keeping them on the line as long as possible, but you dont even have to do anything.
Jeg bruger adblockeren AdNauseam, som er ligesom Ublock Origin, men hvor at den klikker på alle reklamerne i baggrunden, og derfor betaler alle "content providers" på trods af at jeg ikke ser reklamerne til at starte med. Jeg ved ikke om det virker, men hvis det gør, så virker det som om at jeg er en stor del af Vivus reklamebudget, for bare af at være på denne side siger den at de har brugt omkring 18 kr på reklamer.
Jeg føler da i det mindste at jeg gør mit til at snylterlånene kan gå nedenom og hjem, i hvert fald så meget som man kan gøre som enkelt mand.
(Udvidelsen har også den fordel at eftersom at man klikker på alle reklamer i baggrunden, så burde (fokus på burde) den ødelægge alle trackere fra Google og Facebook der holder øje med ens internettrafik.)
Vous connaissez AdNauseam ? https://adnauseam.io/
C'est basé sur Ublock Origin. Non seulement il cache la pub, mais il clique aussi dessus 🙃. Comme ça le créateur a son argent et l'annonceur l'a dans le cul.
Microsoft is an SJW company too.
If you really want to hurt google use that infiintum thing that auto clicks their ads. Their customers pay by the click and if the clicks become worthless google becomes worthless.
edit: https://adnauseam.io/
I've been using adnauseam - https://adnauseam.io/ - I haven't noticed anything funky with it. I adore it thus far. Anyone have any reason I shouldn't? Truly curious, would love to know if I should switch the thing off or keep on keepin' on.
PS: I use it in Chrome.
Install the browser plugin ad nauseam
>As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
ad nauseam is effective enough that google banned it from the chrome store. fortunately you can still install it in under 2 minutes :)
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on-Chrome-Without-Google's-Permission https://adnauseam.io/
Even better than an adblocker is https://adnauseam.io/ which not only blocks ads and tracking but it also blasts advertisers with mountains of fake data by loading and clicking every ad and tracker it finds while not showing it when you load the page. You know its effective because google has banned it from being installed on chrome.
Il y aussi AdNauseam qui clique en arrière plan sur des pubs au hasard pour brouiller le fingerprint publicitaire, auquel je peux rajouter Random Agent Spoofer qui modifie l'UserAgent (Web/mobile/firefox/edge...) pour brouiller la génération de l'ID unique du navigateur (la combinaison unique entre le système d'exploitation, sa version, sa langue, la résolution de l'écran, la version du navigateur, les plugins installés...) et de même pour Chrome avec ScriptSafe qui empêche l'identification par le matériel.
Most people should be more concerned about corporate surveillance than "the government watching". They go hand in hand, and anything the corporate world collects is sure to end up in government hands, but the people looking to profit from it are more likely to use that information in ways that are damaging to you (assuming you aren't a whistleblower, dissident or similar).
It would take all day to go through all the ways they can do this, but one quick example would be data being sold to insurance companies or creditors and used to deny or limit your access to either, or target you for predatory lending.
Even if you (foolishly) "trust" the massive corporations that currently have you data, you should consider what might happen to those companies and the data they hold in the future. No business lasts forever, but the valuable and incredibly dangerous data they hold, and the will to exploit it for profit, will likely be eternal (at least in human terms, and barring some catastrophic event sending us back to the stone age).
These companies want you to be exhausted. It's why they do things the way they do, and why they've got "friendly press" running with the "privacy is dead and there's nothing you can do about it" line. Don't give in. These companies have taken the internet, one of the most incredible creations in the history of our species, and turned it against us. You should be mad about that.
You don't have to go full paranoia. There are tools you can use that take little to no effort on your part, and which the surveillance/ad industry is currently terrified of. Tools like Ad Nauseam are the way forward if we ever want to make the mass surveillance business model Silicon Valley has normalized a thing of the past.
If you're using uBlock, look into AdNauseum. It goes one step further by not just blocking the ad, but also clicking on everything it can to obfuscate your data. This makes all the data they're selling less valuable, and makes you even harder to track since you're not a black hole, you're just static.
First stop was disabling all addons and plugins. No change.
I actually take the opposite tack from uBlock (playing the cat and mouse game with blocking ads), and use AdNauseum to obscure my data with noise (by virtually 'clicking' every ad in the background).
privacy.resistFingerprinting is false - but you put me on the right track...
browser.display.use_document_fonts was 0. I set it to 1 and refreshed, and bada bing...problem solved!
Thanks, Internet Stranger!
Firefox and AdNauseam is a better duo imho.
> clicking ads so you don't have to. As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
They can ban extensions that were installed from outside of their store too (they did it with Adnauseam). When Google bans an extension they are banning it based off of the extensions identifier, even if you sideload it because the identifier is the same Chrome will remove it.
I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:
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That's not a bad idea! There are browser extensions that do exactly that, like AdNauseam, an ad blocker that clicks on ads so it looks like you're interested in everything, and TrackMeNot which searches google for random things (but sadly stops working after a while).
Fully agreed here.
And yes, though I'm not a fan of the good ol' slippery slope, this I think is one and we need to push back.
I'm doing my best, I use blocking and tools like AdNauseam. And since I can't at the moment block Youtube ads, I wrote a small extension to blank and mute videos when there's an ad on.
It's a small protest but a protest nevertheless, advertising is already too pervasive and corrupting influence in today's world.
Yo I want to jack your fame to promote a non-Google approved extension. It's called ad nauseum. It is an adblocker just like the ones you listed except it clicks on the ads and doesn't show any evidence of it. Now you might be thinking why would I want to click on every ad, I'll tell ya why. You can't be tracked as an individual online if you click on everything. Their website does a better job describing it.
All of those things have been done already.
I would like to see browser extensions to:
Reply to a spam email, engaging the spammer in a conversation that wastes their time. I've heard of a few chatbots and such to do this, but I want one that each client machine can run and has an easy UI, so tens of millions of people will use it from their home IP addresses, not a central server.
Internet activity noise-generator. I'm aware of several, such as https://adnauseam.io/ http://makeinternetnoise.com/index.html https://github.com/eth0izzle/Needl Maybe you can make a better one.
Simple app or browser extension to evaluate security of a consumer-grade system (home computer, or phone) and make suggestions. "Hey, you should run an ad-blocker" "Hey, you should use a VPN" "When was the last time you did a backup ?"
I'm not sure you can make money from selling those.
I use AdNauseum, https://adnauseam.io/
It is a fork of uBlock Origin doesn't just block the ads, it also randomly "clicks" those with click tracking and such in order to ensure that all the advertising data collected is entirely useless.
Chrome blocks it (even sideloading it doesn't work) due to a "disagreement" between Google and AdNauseum's developers, so it only works under Firefox / Opera and browsers compatible with plugins for those, or if you enable Chrome's developer mode.
Don't just block the ads, confuse the internet overlords by not only blocking the ads, but simultaneously clicking them too.
I looked at my ad vault last night and just laughed. I've been using an ad block for years, host file on my phone and abp on my PC. Since I've switched to AdNauseam I've gone from giving Google zero info about what ads I click (because I haven't clicked one, ever) to clicking all of them. My advertiser profile must be overflowing with bullshit by now.
you should install adnauseam https://adnauseam.io/
that extension has been kicked out of the chrome webstore so you know it's bad for the advertisers. It basically clicks on all ads and causes thousands in "damage" to the creator of the ads and it also hides all "please deactivate your adblock" things since it makes the site think it has adblock disabled.. pretty clever actually
Another strong alternative to fuck them over is AdNausuem. AdNauseum works by "...automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile."
It's a quick and easy replacement over uBlock Origin (which you should have been using already) and is pretty seamless.
You know it's good when Google/Chrome banned them from their store to make it (only slightly) harder to get, this is the kind of shit that actually hurts them because it poisons their datasets.
Install the browser plugin ad nauseam
>As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
ad nauseam is effective enough that google banned it from the chrome store. fortunately you can still install it in under 2 minutes :)
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on-Chrome-Without-Google's-Permission https://adnauseam.io/
I'm not sure how it would be more private than a normal adblocker for an individual user right now. It sounds like the concept behind AdNauseam is a long term goal to flood advertisers with false clicks and to gain enough users to make effective advertising useless:
> As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
The large banner on their website announces that they have been banned on the Chrome Store and I really have no sympathy there. Blocking ads so they don't get shown at all is one thing but it's another thing trying to completely destroy the only practical business model most websites on the internet have. It's literally wasting advertisers money for nothing, no wonder they don't seem to make any friends with this.
Start fighting back against advertisers directly:
> AdNauseam is a free browser extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from tracking by advertising networks. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying users' discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and facilitate bulk surveillance agendas.
> As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
I agree with this and wanted to post some specific ideas that can help with this.
Go to shows. Buy their Merch. You do this and walk around with a band's shirt or an artist's work and people will ask you about it. The more people do this, the more that art spreads without corporate/capitalist backing but community based word of mouth. You will also likely be putting the money closer to the artist than the record labels that trickle down to the artist.
Think about using AdNauseum with your streaming services or sites you browse to (educate yourself about it first before using) https://adnauseam.io/ . It blocks viewing ads, but also does click-thoughs, still supporting the content creators by literally clicking all the ads...
If you are paying for a streaming service, who says you need to turn it off when you are not listening. If the service pays for each play, play it ALL THE TIME.
Anyone else have other ideas?
could go the extra step and install AdNauseum so advertisers still have to pay content creators, but you don't have to see ads and they can't track your habits based on your clicks.
uBlock Origin, but I actually use a fork of it called AdNauseam, which aims to perturb the profile advertisers build of you by clicking every blocked ad randomly in the background.
If you use chrome install this:
It automatically clicks the adverts without even displaying them on your screen, so the website gets a click but the company doesn't get a sell. I think it is a mandatory extension in the modern internet world.
You'll need to install in manually however as Chrome don't have it on their store. I guess Google didn't want advertisers getting mad. They're clearly the main customer after all, and we are the product.