Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to
by mpeg on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:20AM
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This extension doesn't use selenium, plus that's not entirely true, selenium sees HTML and DOM while a user sees the final render; there's ways you can hide content from a user while showing it to Selenium-style bots.
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Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to
by chii on Friday March 01, 2019 @08:54AM
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I thought selenium will throw an exception when an element being clicked is not actually visible.
Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to
by Someone on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:15AM
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If “ignore all clicks from a user that clicks >3 ads on a page” isn’t good enough for an ad network, it can add three or four ‘ads’ that technically are visible, but the same color as the page background. If a user clicks a few of them, ignore all clicks from that user on that page.
AdNauseam could detect that, too, but it gets exceedingly hard, slowing down the user’s browser. So, I think the ad network can win that battle.