• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Adnausem

    It is built on top of unlock origin and will silently click on the ads in the background to mess with your digital footprint while costing advertisers money who use pay per click.

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        There are tools that allow people who buy ads to compare the performance of their ads with their own metrics.

        The more ineffectual an ad platform is, the less likely ad purchasers are to purchase ads.

        If 20% of American internet users used ad nauseam it would cause significant financial damage to ad companies across the globe.

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      That feature it uses to silently click ads increased the RAM usage of my browser by a lot on two separate systems (my android phone, and my PC) and since I really do not give an extra fuck about clicking ads in the background (Google still makes millions, and the plugin dev is also using the clicks to make money via affiliate) and I only care about blocking them, I went back to uBlock Origin.

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      Is that considered click fraud or is that only when an advertiser intentionally gets competitor ads clicked, and similar behaviors?

      Not saying anybody [here] cares just curious (as a Ublock Origin user)

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        2 months ago

        I think it is when a competitor does it in an attempt to make the advertiser lose money.

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        Basically tells advertisers and trackers that you click on every single ad (a common metric used to gauge interest), so it’s harder for them to tell what you’re interested in and build a profile of you

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            Worse actually, since we usually visit a subset of the web, and by “fake clicking” all the ads of all the websites we visit, we actually give google a pretty good profile of the websites we visit, and that’s bad. Fake clicking is not as private as people think it is.

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        You get tracked based on how you interact. This obfuscates that beyond just “I block all of them”.

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          It still only clicks ads of the webpages you visit, which again is a pretty good tracking pattern. I prefer to be tracked as “blocks all of them” than “clicks all the ads of these webpages, which are about XYZ, so they must have interests in XZY, which is actually true since I did visit those websites”.

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        Google tracks everything you do so they can deliver targeted ads to you

        By clicking every ad it is harder for them to build a profile

        They also take these profiles and sell them so companies know what demographic to focus on