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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 2 days ago by joshchandra@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

because it's a modified uBlock Origin, so it's like running two ad blocking plugins at once, which isn't recommended. and if uBO blocks an ad first, AdNauseam won't be able to detect it and click on it.

anyway, I remember reading a long time ago how that approach isn't going to harm ad companies anyway, because [technical reasons that I don't remember at all].

[–] cageythree@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I use it because otherwise I'd use ublock anyways. So it either does it thing and if not, it's the same result as ublock.