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Re:AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To by mess110 on Sunday August 27, 2017 @05:28AM (#15109925)
Lets see if Basic-Attention-Token works
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Re:AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To by Sir_Substance on Sunday August 27, 2017 @05:39AM (#15109974)
It won't. Most people don't want their attention monetized.
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Re:AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To by Zarath on Sunday August 27, 2017 @06:07AM (#15110054)
Most people don't know that it already is and has been for a very long time.
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Re:AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To by Sir_Substance on Sunday August 27, 2017 @06:36AM (#15110129)
And as they get wise, they increasingly install ad blockers. That's going to the moon at the moment. Tools like Ad Nausium are the next logical step.
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Re:AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To by tomp on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:45PM (#15111756)
How will they tackle abuse (hackers running bots and "mining attention")?
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