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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by Gabrys1 on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:50AM (#46856668)
What if someone unironically wants to automatically click all the ads to support the websites they visit
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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by billyp-rva on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:30AM (#46857112)
You'd be doing way more harm than good. The battle between ad networks and unscrupulous website owners using bots to fake ad clicks has been going on forever.
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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by rvnx on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:25AM (#46857068)
Some sort of Robinhood of advertising, taking from the big, to give to the small
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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by freitasm on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:49PM (#46858872)
Ads pay in different forms. Some pay per click (PPC), some pay per thousand impressions (CPM).

Clicking with the intention of helping doesn't help. Only clicking with genuine interest helps.

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Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage by c22 on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:54PM (#46861398)
I don't think the question was about whether this would actually help the advertisers. (I suspect it was rhetorical.) Of course the defense will now be harder to execute for anyone who reads this thread.
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