Obligatory caution that's shared whenever AdNauseam is promoted on HN:
Indiscriminately clicking links to ads on web pages will get you flagged as a bot or for "unusual behavior" and you may start seeing more captchas and things like that as your IP / browsing behavior are flagged.
I've had this plugin for like 2 years I think (possibly more), and never had any issue with this. Neither Cloudflare's nor Google's non-interactive captchas have ever labeled me as a bot, and I've never been blocked from any site.
That could be because I've been so thoroughly tracked throughout my life already that they can detect me from mouse movements/keystrokes alone, or that adnauseam's behavior isn't obviously bot-like, or that the trackers already account for it's behavior patterns and filter it out as noise.
In any case, if it has the potential to cause advertisers grief, then I'm going to continue to use it.
yeah, what the parent commenter said makes little sense. Google search certainly won't do this and not a lot of people use google as a cdn (and even if they did I doubt there is an adword/adsense integration like that). Maybe if you click like every result from a google search. Most annoying ads aren't served by the top ad providers anyways, there are a lot of ad networks and ad delivery services out there.
The #1 cause of that bot experience is vpns and proxies. I get that 3rd rate experience myself, but even then it is bad but not unusable bad.
I remember making an ad clicker. I got the idea after my Banjo-Kazooie website earned $12 in banner ad clicks organically. That check in the mail inspired 11-year-old me to create InfiniteMoneyGlitch.js. It chugged away all night. And when I woke up, I saw that I was promptly banned for life.
I've been using it for atleast five years on every single device. This does not happen.
What did happen was that Google banned it from the Chrome store and this sounds like the exact kind of rumor they would spread if it actually does work to help poison your ad profile.
Using an ad blocker already does that. I can’t even use reddit outside a private browsing session because the main session is somehow identified to be a bot already and I get the “whoa there partner…” page. Same thing with other sites amazon serves a ton of captchas, so does google.
This is kinda good if you think about it since it'd create more friction in using ad-laden websites. Those that aren't blnuts with ads will be more likely rewarded with your attention. Seems fair.
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Indiscriminately clicking links to ads on web pages will get you flagged as a bot or for "unusual behavior" and you may start seeing more captchas and things like that as your IP / browsing behavior are flagged.
That could be because I've been so thoroughly tracked throughout my life already that they can detect me from mouse movements/keystrokes alone, or that adnauseam's behavior isn't obviously bot-like, or that the trackers already account for it's behavior patterns and filter it out as noise.
In any case, if it has the potential to cause advertisers grief, then I'm going to continue to use it.
What should actually be noted is that Google has rejected the plugin from their store for ages so it does seem to do some damage to adtech.
The #1 cause of that bot experience is vpns and proxies. I get that 3rd rate experience myself, but even then it is bad but not unusable bad.
What did happen was that Google banned it from the Chrome store and this sounds like the exact kind of rumor they would spread if it actually does work to help poison your ad profile.
Dead Comment
(1)A person is guilty of an offence if—
(a)he does any unauthorised act in relation to a computer;
(b)at the time when he does the act he knows that it is unauthorised; and
(c)either subsection (2) or subsection (3) below applies.
(2)This subsection applies if the person intends by doing the act—
(c)to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data;