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AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking (adnauseam.io)
submitted 1 day ago by joshchandra@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 82 points 1 day ago (17 children)

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.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fascinating, thanks for sharing! What is the best, current Firefox fork of this one, if you know?

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

it's a browser extension for Firefox, not a fork of Firefox. Or did I misunderstand you?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I was reacting to its GitHub:

This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork. This is the FireFox version of the project, for Chrome see https://github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome.

So I'm wondering which active fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could've been clearer; my bad.

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