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WarmWash • yesterday at 2:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>Don't tell me I'm not allowed to click buttons you put in my face.

To be fair, you put it in your own face, by visiting the site...

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rvnx • yesterday at 3:07 PM

I mean, (not to you, as we go in the same direction, in general), just block it.

The goal of Adnauseam was to hurt Google, and other big adnetworks, from what I understand.

By blocking:

    -> Advertiser is not harmed
    -> For the adnetwork: No ad revenue
    -> Publisher is not harmed
    -> Pages load faster
--> Google is earning less (if this is part of your ideological fight) and you get rewarded with a better experience, and you are legally safe

==

With fake clicks:

    -> Advertiser is harmed
    -> Publisher is harmed
    -> Adnetwork is okayish with the situation (to a certain point)
-> You hurt websites and products that you like (or would statistically like)

--> Google is accidentally earning more revenue (at least temporarily, until you get shadow-banned), your computer / page loads slows down and you enter a legally gray area.

(+ the side-note below: clicking on every ads leak your browsing history because in the URL there is a unique tracking ID that connects to the page you are viewing)

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