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AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking (adnauseam.io)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (45 children)

Good start. Now make a version that clicks each ad a random number of times from randomly generated IP addresses.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (32 children)

That's not how IP addresses work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Totally doable if this was a distributed service.

ok not randomly generated, but you know

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