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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by Nextgrid on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:23PM (#31590569)
AdNauseam attempts to do that with ads: https://adnauseam.io

I was thinking the other day of setting up a bunch of VMs with some browser automation with the goal of aimlessly browsing popular sites with the plugin enabled in the background in order to have most ad providers blacklist my IP for ad fraud and thus not trust any data coming from me.

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by addingnumbers on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:45AM (#31594818)
I only know one guy who used Ad Nauseum, two or three weeks later his gmail account was banned and to this day he has to complete a CAPTCHA every time he visits a Google site from his home IP.
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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by Nextgrid on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:50AM (#31594878)
That would be a feature for me as I don't use any Google services. A Google ban would be more than welcome!
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