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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] linearchaos 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maybe we're thinking about this wrong. Maybe we should all start running plugins that just load whatever ads that show up in the background hundreds of times without showing them to us. Every viewer is thousands upon thousands of impressions and click through rates become absolutely miserable. We can make the ads worthless or maybe even make them cost a significant amount of money to host.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AdNauseam does this to a lesser degree. I'm not sure how effective it is.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's mildly effective in the sense that it will decimate click-through rates, but if enough people did it, they would start filtering by IP, and you'd need to change how many ads it clicks on so it looks more human.

It also still gives advertisers your data, since it still has to load the ads on your system to click them, so it's not as privacy-preserving as a full-on adblocker that outright blocks every advertisement and tracker related network request in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I don't want to use it because I don't want them to get some weird over fitted model of my behavior.

[–] vxx 1 points 2 months ago

I had an add blocker on phone thats worked that way (AdAway). It would just redirect adds into some folder and apps would be satisfied.