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Re:AdNauseam: Browser extension to fight back against tracki... by sanxiyn on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:33AM (#20049390)
> extensions that will inevitably get banned (due to this being essentially fraud)

AdNauseam has been up on Firefox Add-ons for a while and it is not banned and I don't believe it will get banned. Explain why you think differently please.

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Re:AdNauseam: Browser extension to fight back against tracki... by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:18AM (#20049785)
Not OP, but Google can enforce whatever policies they like in their own marketplace. Considering their main business is selling ads and click fraud is against their TOS, I'm not surprised they'd ban this extension.

Personally I think that if people hate ads so much they should just block them (I do). This attitude of "sticking it to the man" by "screwing with their data" seems petty and potentially counterproductive.

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Re:AdNauseam: Browser extension to fight back against tracki... by sanxiyn on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:05AM (#20049993)
How is it counterproductive? Any concrete scenario?
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Re:AdNauseam: Browser extension to fight back against tracki... by chatmasta on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:03AM (#20051921)
It’s not saving you bandwidth, which is the primary reason I use an adblocker.
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