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Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest

Posted by timothy on from the they-never-suggest-wine-pairings-do-they dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In response to Google's recently announced plans to expand the tracking of users, the international anti-advertising magazine Adbusters proposes that we collectively embark on a civil disobedience campaign of intentional, automated 'click fraud' in order to undermine Google's advertising program in order to force Google to adopt a pro-privacy corporate policy. They have released a GreaseMonkey script that automatically clicks on all AdSense ads."

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  1. Re:Not civil disobedience by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here's something easier, and much less malicious, and just plain retarded. Don't use Google.

    I must be turning into an Archie Bunker in my old age, but I find pricks like you and Adbusters utterly intolerable. The sole measure of your indignation against someone else seems to be their success.

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  2. Re:Adblock more damaging? by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Troll

    Assuming Adbusters' goal is to eliminate ads, wouldn't something like Adblock be a more productive approach? Or at the very least, just clearing all but whitelisted cookies every session? When the technological solution works, there's no need for protest or laws.

    That would be more the more rational solution, but let's not forget that Adbusters are a pack of anarcho-communists. It's not just that they want free enterprise and capitalism to fail, they want to stick dynamite in its foundations and blow it up.

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  3. Re:What a terrible idea.. by MightyMartian · · Score: 0, Troll

    To Adbusters, there is no such thing as an "honest commercial website". When will people realize, Adbusters is to the Internet what PETA is to animal rights. They aren't some sort of consumer advocates, they're goddamned anarcho-communists. They're a pack of lunatic fanatics. The only thing they currently lack is a pack of ravenous loonies ala-Ron Paul-style supporters appearing on every possible web forum decrying the evils of modern capitalist society.

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  4. Re:Adblock? by Ash+Vince · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hate advertising, but as long as I can opt out it's OK with me.

    You can opt out, you can start paying for all services that would normally be ad supported. Anything else is just freeloading.

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  5. Re:Why not just block their ads? by easyTree · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, spread democracy and remove weapons of mass destruction.

    ..which you sold him a few years earlier. Also, don't forget 'and steal their oil'.

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  6. Re:Protest is one approach, but... by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 0, Troll

    Carl? Carl Icahn? Is that you?

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  7. Re:Ad Blocking = Digital Earplugs..... by societyofrobots · · Score: 0, Troll

    The internet isn't free. You agree to use it at the cost of viewing ads. No ads, and the internet won't exist.

    What, you thought internet companies ask their employees to work for free?! ;)