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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Sunday February 09 2020, @10:53PM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Sunday February 09 2020, @10:53PM (#956190)

    Adnauseam

    It blocks the ad but sends a false click to the advertisers to poison their well and earns money for the website anyway.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @06:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @06:31AM (#956761)

    I don't get the point of AdNauseam. Whether you click on everything you recognize as an ad or nothing you recognize as an ad, it seems like you provide the same amount of information about your preferences. In addition, clicking on the ads generates more risk as you'd have to download the actual ad (are you sure the protocol stack is bug free?), possibly run the ad's JavaScript (bugs there or in the engine?), run the page's JavaScript (bugs there?), follow redirect chain (bugs there?), an possibly other things (bugs everywhere?). All of that opens you up to more risks than blocking them and not doing it renders your real clicks different than non-clicks anyway. I don't really see the benefit especially in light of the additional risk, but if I'm missing something in my understanding, which wouldn't be the first time, I'd like to know.