Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage
by malfist on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:31AM
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> It's a very harmful practice to intentionally try to hurt companies, when you can just block what you don't like.
I say tit for tat. They're intentionally trying to harm me, spying on me, maybe infecting my computer, mining crypto with my CPU, or wasting my network bandwidth. They could just not do that and there wouldn't be any concern about reciprocity
Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage
by yunwal on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:46PM
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> I say tit for tat.
Does your say have any relevance here in terms of what the law is? Are you a state judge tasked with interpreting the law? Where's the tit-for-tat clause?
Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage
by zenethian on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:15AM
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Okay but hurting consumers by tracking everything they do is totally okay?
Companies aren’t people. Fuck companies.
Re:AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage
by rvnx on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:20AM
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This is not ok I totally agree with you, but still, I would rather just block the ads, and not buy their products or support them.
There is a side-effect in terms of privacy: you send a fake click request every single time, you also actually disclose to adnetworks which page you are visiting and incidentally your whole browsing history (not through referrers, but because click URLs have a unique click IDs to match).
> One public Firebase file. One day. $98,000. How it happened and how it could happen to you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1kg9icb/one_pu...
"It's just a script that makes a loop, I didn't charge anybody anything, I didn't pay anybody anything. I agreed to no terms and conditions".
It's a very harmful practice to intentionally try to hurt companies, when you can just block what you don't like.