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Google has put a lot of effort into detecting and blocking stuff like this. They call it "click fraud", if you want to look it up.
It'll just mean they start ignoring clicks from you.
Then that achieves the same goal. If they're ignoring clicks from you, and you're blocking their trackers, then they probably don't have a good profile on you, because whatever they do have is either old, poisoned, or both.
That, I guess, it’s the whole point. Stopping being tracked 🙂
This feels like reverse psychology on a little kid.
"That's it, I'm not tracking you anymore! >:("
"Oooh nooo, what have I done! Oh how much I would wish to be tracked :("
"No, you won't convince me to change my mind >:("
"Oh well, guess I'll have to live without being tracked, what a shame that is."
No, click fraud is using botnets to click ads in your site to increase your revenue.
When Google can't extract money from you that's fraud!
They can still get money from this. In fact, they get more money from this than with uBlock.
They recognize how it undermines the digital advertising system, so they did everything in their power to get rid of it before it takes off.
We really should be recommending adNauseam instead of uBlock.
OK.. If trust is bro, then they won
But I ain't no middle schooler, so you need to explain like I am 5 how this solution is in fact superior to uBlock
Is there any proper research on this?
It is literally uBlock. It updates with uBlock, uses uBlock filtering, uBlock options, uBlock UI.
The only difference is that it also does ad fuckery and there is a button that you can press to configure the ad fuckery and see a log of the ad fuckery.
Other than that it is exactly uBlock.
They can still get money from this. In fact, they get more money from this than with uBlock.
They recognize how it undermines the digital advertising system, so they did everything in their power to get rid of it before it takes off. They're fighting a generational war and don't want us to even be aware of the tools we have to fight back.
We really should be recommending adNauseam instead of uBlock.
if enough people start doing it might be effective
Not sure how true it was, but there was a YouTuber claiming that their videos were getting entirely demonetized because too many of their viewers had Ad blockers enabled. So even though 75% of people were seeing ads on the video, Google was keeping that ad revenue, withholding it all from the creator because 25% weren't getting ads. The claim the youtuber made is that this will probably predominantly impact creators with a more tech savvy / privacy aware audience, resulting in less of that niche content.
Anyway, this is anecdotal, but I wouldn't put it past Google to pass the issue to the creators for the actions of their consumers, even though it's not their fault.
Creators who care about privacy should not support Google’s monopoly by using YouTube as their platform of choice.
legit, there are so many platforms out there, idc which one they use, but pretty please, just mirror your content. Why's it so hard 😵💫. The group im referring to doesnt even have the "money ads" argument as what most small creators earn on yt is peanuts.
google has way too much power. its threat to everything
Throw in a dash of track-me-not (https://www.trackmenot.io/) and maybe they'll start ignoring your search queries too! Worst case my actual searches are so buried in the bs deciding what to market would be easier from my screen-name.
can confirm. You know those 'google rewards' things? they slowly stopped going for the results from trackmenot lol
it was nice to get $1 a month off my VPN subscription lol
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! What is the best, current Firefox fork of this one, if you know?
it's a browser extension for Firefox, not a fork of Firefox. Or did I misunderstand you?
I was reacting to its GitHub:
So I'm wondering which active fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could've been clearer; my bad.