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grueztoday at 3:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

Ad Nauseum is snakeoil. Their FAQ states that they "click" on ads by sending a XHR request[1]. As you might imagine, this is easily detectable, and given how rampant ad fraud is, fake "clicks" like those are almost certainly filtered by every ad network. Otherwise anyone with a botnet would be able to easily make millions of fake clicks with a few lines of javascript.

[1] https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause...


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GoblinSlayertoday at 8:03 AM

Wasn't the whole idea to open links in hidden tabs?

Larrikintoday at 4:30 AM

If it didn't work, Google wouldn't have banned it well ahead of them banning the working version of uBlock Origin.