AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 9, 2014 @01:51AM from the you-like-this-and-this-and-this dept.

New submitter stephenpeters writes The AdNauseam browser extension claims to click on each ad you have blocked with AdBlock in an attempt to obfuscate your browsing data. Officially launched mid November at the Digital Labour conference in New York, the authors hope this extension will register with advertisers as a protest against their pervasive monitoring of users online activities. It will be interesting to see how automated ad click browser extensions will affect the online ad arms race. Especially as French publishers are currently planning to sue Eyeo GmbH, the publishers of Adblock. This might obfuscate the meaning of the clicks, but what if it just encourages the ad sellers to claim even higher click-through rates as a selling point?

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Re:Gotta love the creativity. by Triklyn · 2014-12-09 02:17 · Score: 1, Funny

france, the place where liberty was born, and where it went back to die.
Re:All for poisioning the well by Lilith's+Heart-shape · 2014-12-09 03:23 · Score: 1, Funny

My day job involves doing to your girlfriend what you aren't man enough to do yourself, AC.

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Re:All for poisioning the well by Bigbutt · 2014-12-09 04:33 · Score: 1, Funny

Shame on you for not knowing that ladies can have girlfriends.
[John]

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