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A comment on Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest against Google?.

Re:Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest ag... by TrueDuality on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:22PM (#20057992)
That's liking playing aggressive russian roulette with your machine. Do you like malware? Because that's how you get malware.
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Re:Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest ag... by gremlinsinc on Friday May 31, 2019 @12:08AM (#20058144)
why not sell raspberry pi's that are just clickbots that anyone can buy and plug into their lan as a google protest that just clicks google ads all day long...that way your computer won't get infected just the pi.
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Re:Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest ag... by klyrs on Friday May 31, 2019 @12:31AM (#20058229)
Follow related searches randomly, use random fingerprints to simulate sessions. Click more ads. Search for terms on the advertiser's page. Click more ads. Search for random terms mixed with common terms in the session. Click more ads.

Spam the damn spammers and teach the AI with uncorrelated garbage mixed into the correlations it's already learned.

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Re:Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest ag... by clintonb on Friday May 31, 2019 @12:26AM (#20058213)
That seems like a waste of energy.
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Re:Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest ag... by sanxiyn on Friday May 31, 2019 @12:17AM (#20058177)
This is a great idea! I will happily crowdfund this.
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Re:Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest ag... by gervu on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:59PM (#20058122)
Malware happens because arbitrary JavaScript and bad browser API decisions. Popping background requests for stuff you don't actually want to run or display doesn't require executing arbitrary JavaScript.
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Re:Ask HN: A browser that clicks on every ad as a protest ag... by TrueDuality on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:28AM (#20061193)
Displaying most ads requires you to already be running javascript. When was the last time you viewed the web with javascript disabled?
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