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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by billyp-rva on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:28AM (#46856425)
You would probably just start seeing worse and worse ads [0]. Legitimate ad accounts would stop bidding on your profile so you'd be left with only scam ads.

[0] https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...

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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by WarmWash on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:58AM (#46856747)
This is also why when people turn off their adblock they only get ads for crypto scams and malware downloads, reinforcing the notion that even "clean" websites are infested with scams and viruses.
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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by Tom1380 on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:02PM (#46860630)
Scams and malware are unacceptable. It doesn't matter if it's all the ads or only some of them. No justification there.
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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by tuco86 on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:42AM (#46856576)
Wasting scammers money seems like it's targeting itself in the right direction.

i used adnauseam a while ago. it clicked on about 1.5 million ads in half a year of usage.

Not sure i can give good reasoning for this, but it felt like doing the right thing. :)

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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by lux-lux-lux on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:50AM (#46856666)
Assuming those numbers are accurate that’s over 8,200 ads per day, every day. Absolutely staggering.
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