https://adnauseam.io/

Normal Adblockers like ublock only block advertisements and random crap. AdNauseam takes it a step further and goes on the offensive against advertisement agencies by poisoning the data they collect on you.

AdNauseum will click every single ad in the background and has ublock integrated inside to do the standard adblocking. This will make all their data on you useless.

Google has banned it from the chrome web store so you know it's working great. You can use it on both Firefox and Chromium based browsers by using the guide from the official website.

Remember to update the ublock filters once installed to bypass whatever Youtube is trying to block ads now.

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    6 months ago

    Nope. Your data is more valuable because that's used to advertise to you in the future. You won't visit sites, you'll just click the ad and close it immediately so it will mark you as "Interested in Product".

    More technically this is from the FAQ,

    Does AdNauseam's clicking put me at risk for malicious Ads or ransomware?

    Absolutely not. AdNauseam simulates clicks on Ads by issuing an AJAX request to the adserver in a background process. This request is made without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. The text-only request is safely discarded by AdNauseam before it has a chance to execute in the browser (no DOM is constructed and no code is ever allowed to run). Further, all cookies from AdNauseam's visits are automatically blocked before they reach the browser's local storage.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Sorry, my question is, if I have this extension and watch a YouTube video, would that lead to YouTube getting more ad revenue? IIRC channels receive more money when CTR on their videos is higher, so it can benefit the channel, too.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      I’m still not sold on the usefulness of this. If you never click on an ad, they won’t have a profile on you based on that. But they will have a profile on you based on your browsing history, the products you buy, search, etc. so it seems like this gives them money while they can simply discard all your artificial ad data and focus on your manual searches and non-ad clicks. Like, okay, you clicked on every porn ad and phone ad and university enrollment ad and Applebees ad. But they still know you’re into cars because you just bought 10 tuning kits within the last 6 months.

      Apparently it costs advertisers a lot of money when you falsify data hence the removal, but I guess it’s useful if you’re trying to fuck them over, but from a privacy standpoint, I don’t get it.

      • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        If I could know how much money it costs them and it was high enough, I may be willing to make that sacrifice.