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[–] 112 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (24 children)

If you want to actively shit on them, there is AdNauseam, which is a fork of uBlock Origin but in addition to blocking the ads, it clicks on absolutely everything, sending fake signals. Polluting their database is costing them money and they have to deal with all the noise.

Not for everyone, but definitely an active hostility towards these fucks.

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  • [–] 73 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    That seems like it opens the door to a lot of security issues. Part of the reason to use uBlock is that ads are a known threat vector.

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    All clicks are performed in an isolated sandbox separate from the user area (basically imagine the click register signal going out, but nothing more).

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    What if you have a multi layered ad blocking setup where you’re using ublock origin and pi.hole and a VPN with blocking?

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The multiple layers of redundancy would likely clash with Adnauseum, yeah. Although that probably is just wasted compute - you may only need one or two of those solutions to have effective adblocking (uBlock for supported browsers, pi.hole for devices unable to have uBlock installed) rather than all 3 at once.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Well I’m not gonna bother turning off any of the layers when I’m out and about. Like, my laptop still needs ublock when I’m not at home. And the vpn is just for certain use cases.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If you set up tailscale, you can connect your laptop to your home network and have the pi-hole everywhere.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Except it still rewards the site for hosting ads in the first place

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    As someone who works in marketing - they will tote these clicks as a great success and continue to do what they are doing, maybe even more so, but will be distraught by the lack of follow through when it comes to sales. I guess if it happened long enough, And on a big enough scale, they might eventually give up but it would take years

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Didn't Louis Rossmann say that the conversion rate when they briefly ran repair shop ads was less than 2% or something similar? I think he referred to it when talking about using adblock and donating/buying merch for your favorite creators instead.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    It's a cute idea, but they would just incorporate some amount of false clicks into their metrics.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Exactly, its data poisioning.

    If someone is trying to build an ad profile on you (even if you personally dont see the ads) then it feeds them junk data instead of real date.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    If you think clicking all the ads makes a meaningful difference, then all the power to you.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Its purely out of spite, plus, im not clicking anything.

    I run the full ad blocking suite anyway and see more ads watching a sportsball game with the family than I do on my home network over the course of months.

    1. I dont see the ads
    2. The data they generate is wrong and random, if that is used to train AI it runs the risk of poisioning the model.
    3. The site Im on gets paid by the ad vendor, even though the interaction is fraudulent.

    I call it a win-win

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Blocking ads definitely doesn't help the site get paid, that's what I was talking about above.

    For the same reason, it's probably not doing any meaningful "poisoning" either.

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