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Re:Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry by brokenmachine on Thursday January 09, 2025 @12:08AM (#42641819)
Just mentioning AdNauseam, which clicks on all ads in the background to poison the data.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

Re:Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry by JohnMakin on Friday January 10, 2025 @05:33AM (#42654453)
I like the spirit of stuff like this a lot and have entertained similar ideas, but the issue with specifically this is that depending on where you live, this may be illegal (which is effing ridiculous - I’ve had to build defense against click fraud, in my opinion if a website or company is vulnerable to this it’s their own lack of diligence, but whatever). So to me, stuff like this is a fun gray area middle finger but ultimately does not do anything to solve my problem, which is I want to completely opt out of behavioral tracking in any way shape or form, and if I cannot, I want the data truly anonymous as was promised/implied by these same people over the last two decades every time privacy conerns were raised. I know it’s a much wider problem than stuff like this is meant to solve, just wanted to throw it out there that (hilariously) stuff like this is illegal depending on local statutes.
Re:Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry by brokenmachine on Sunday January 12, 2025 @05:01PM (#42677395)
It's illegal to auto-click on ads that are automatically delivered? That's good example of a law I don't care about.