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Re:We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes th... by highstep on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:09AM (#25519033)
This seems very hostile to small businesses who pay for those ads.
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Re:We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes th... by greenshackle2 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:35AM (#25519338)
Yeah they didn't mention the stated purpose of AdNauseam, which is explicitly hostile to ad networks and advertisers.

EDIT: From their paper:

"The second goal is to provide a means of proactive engagement, allowing users an avenue for expression of their dissatisfaction with current advertising mechanisms to those in control of such systems. In the case of AdNauseam, this expression has an interventional aspect, as the software actively attempts to disrupt the economic model that drives advertising surveillance"

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf

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Re:We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes th... by pjc50 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:20AM (#25519169)
What percentage of google ads are from small businesses?

What percentage of google ads targeted to me are from small businesses?

(I've no way of guessing as I just block all of them)

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Re:We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes th... by mbirth on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:11AM (#25519055)
Well, you can decide. Do you care more about the sites you visit frequently or the businesses that use Google Ads?
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