Gregory's Server"Banned by Google, recommended by Firefox" is quite the tagline. Adnauseam is an online advertiser data obfuscation browser plugin:
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 @ZaneSelvans everybody developed detection for this immediately when it came out, all it does is waste a little bandwidth @rantanlan @ZaneSelvans When I was asked to look at it at my previous job, I determined it was already detected and mitigated via existing anti-fraud measures. Even if it hadn't been, it was absolutely trivial to detect. AFAICT it's not maintained, so I doubt there's been any change.  @dalias @rantanlan @ZaneSelvans loss of third party cookies will hurt the industry more than ad nauseum ever did, and I don't think browser exists extensions are powerful enough to evade mitigations @dalias @rantanlan @ZaneSelvans even without cookies, if you have something like ad nauseum clicking everything, the click through rate statistics for one's ip address gives the game away It was never more than a piece of performance art @dalias @rantanlan @ZaneSelvans for anyone reading this not aware, if it's not clear from my prior comments, I have been doing ad fraud mitigation work for ten years The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less. It's profoundly idiotic and ironic that the ad industry effectively pays me to exterminate botnets for a living. @ryanc @dalias @ZaneSelvans this is, indeed, a little weird and somewhat mind boggling when you think about it. But I guess that the world we live in, lol @rantanlan @dalias @ZaneSelvans money, so much fucking money  @ZaneSelvans this is a brilliant add-on! It seems this is one of the only weapons we have to combat the wholesale harvesting of our data... through poisoning it. Sounds like a similar tactic that #nightShade uses to protect Artists work   |
I guess if enough people install this kind of thing, it also poisons the economics of the current advertisement revenue model, at least for anyone who pays for clicks.