alt Hacker NewsWhat would happen (theoretically) if ublock would be changed to not only hide the ads, but click on each and every one of them. Would that disincentivize ad networks to run ads because the data would be poisoned?
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billyp-rva • yesterday at 2:28 PM
You would probably just start seeing worse and worse ads [0]. Legitimate ad accounts would stop bidding on your profile so you'd be left with only scam ads.
[0] https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
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direwolf20 • yesterday at 2:31 PM
That exists, it's called Ad Nauseum
SSLy • yesterday at 1:58 PM
clicking each ad would have no entropy. Clicking some on the other hand…
Adnauseam (https://adnauseam.io/) does this