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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    10 months ago

    You know this is the good shit because when it first came out a few years back google was running a huge disinformation campaign against it. You’d search for “adnauseum” in google and the first result would be an article from some weird advertising company calling is “insecure” and “malware” without any actual argumentation behind those claims, while no other search engine returned that article (I lost the screenshots, so yall are just gonna have to take my word for it). They also delisted it from the chrome store for not discernible reason. They were afraid.

    But nowadays I’m willing to bet that they figured out how to detect adnauseum’s fake clicks and filtering it out. Stuff like that needs a talented development team to keep it up to date.

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    10 months ago

    I always liked using this on the premise of privacy-through-obfuscation. If the powers that be must get information from me, then i’d prefer to give them garbage information.

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    10 months ago

    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.

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        10 months ago

        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.”