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That's not how IP addresses work.
It does if it reports the URL to click home somewhere and users can opt in to pull the list to auto click.
It would DDoS the ad servers. Muwhahahaa
Yes. That’s just what I want. An extension sending all ads served to me to a central location, so my fingerprint can be very easily indexed and stored on a definitely never hacked, leaked, or sold database.
What if we use a Visual Basic UI to hack the IP address by netmask?
Is it from this? https://youtu.be/hkDD03yeLnU
Yes, but this only works if you connect your VPN via 3 block chain proxies.
Make sure you're behind a 54mghz ram modem firewall
maybe we can setup a botnet to poison advertiser data.
click all the ads, all over the planet!
Why are you people so concerned about "the data?" Talk about missing the forest for the trees.
This is an effective tool to charge advertisers money without having their ads shoved in our faces. It directly undermines the integrity of the digital advertising ecosystem, and you people are obsessed with "privacy" because your priorities have been decided for you by your oppressors.
what oppressors want me to worry about privacy? what planet are they in?
those people are literally using it to sell us fascism...
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Feed it SQL injections?
Have it form connections to all the other browsers using the extension and they all send a click.
now you've broken the law by creating a botnet.
"He who save his country does not violate the law" 😏
Naw, it’s an MMORPG.
Is the botnet itself breaking the law or is breaking the law with a botnet breaking the law?
I'm pretty sure it's not a botnet until it's used as one or the intent of it is to be used in the same way a botnet is used.
Okay okay, how about a counter that is updated with each user clicking on an ad, and the client can decide what they want to do with that information, totally not a botnet right?
It just changes the user agent instead...
Nothing is random
In bot cases like this you would have a proxy list that it “randomly” picks from
No, he means that's literally not how IP addresses work. It's not about "nothing being random."
You don't just "pick an IP address" from a list lmao and send it as though it's not your actual IP. You would need to literally connect to a proxy and send the request through that proxy in order for ads to see an IP different than you own.
My god, are you people trolls or just the next generation taking hold? The dumbing down of Western society is in full force.
Yes that is what was proposed, you’re the only one who seems unclear on it
Where is it being proposed?
You can fake your IP. There isnt really any authentication at the IP level. Just make a packet and overwite the IP field.
Edit: I was corrected. The TCP handshake requires you to have a valid IP you can respond from. So even though you can fake your IP, you can't use that to talk to most websites.
You need a TCP handshake prior to sending any http payload.
Oh yeah. Forgot about that.
I can tell I'm getting old by the amount of proudly-dumb shit I keep reading.
It's only going to get worse. Sigh.
I misremembered my internet class. Sucks that it made ya feel bad.
Edit: and you can put whatever you want as your source IP at the IP level. Though idk how modern security deals with that. I know I was taught that that was a way to DoS attack, so I imagine it's protected against.
If you just do it on your own computer, the packet will be already dropped by your own gateway. You can fake whichever address in your local subnet, but those are very likely remapped anyway in your gw to the one given by your ISP.
If you would have access to the switch port used by your ISP in the Internet exchange point (IX), you would have more liberties in choosing the IP.