Lemdro.id

20 points

1 year ago

Adnauseum does this. I think it simulates clicks to ads and corrupts your advertising profile.

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sqgl@beehaw.org

7 points

1 year ago

https://adnauseam.io/

As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile

I don’t get it though. The “listeners” could detect this and subtract 1 click from everything in the page. I guess that would only happen once ad nauseum gets popular.

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1 point

1 year ago

Which one would they subtract?

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sqgl@beehaw.org

-1 points

1 year ago

Subtract all of them. That gives zero clicks except for the ones you manually clicked.

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2 points

1 year ago

The trackers can’t tell which are manual clicks and which come from the plugin. That’s the idea. It obfuscates your tracking by random clicks you don’t see. It costs them data and makes tracking you worthless.

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sqgl@beehaw.org

1 point

1 year ago

Maybe I misunderstood but it seems the plugin clicks all the buttons… every one… once.

So if the website notices that it can “unclick” everything exactly once.

Therefore only the manual clicks will survive because that button was clicked twice: once manually, and once automatically.

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1 point

1 year ago

I think there is a setting to how often it clicks. From rare, 10%, to all, 100%. I understand what you’re saying about it now. I didn’t realise the option for all was there. I thought it was more random.

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