Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock

  • thermogel@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.

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      7 hours ago

      Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.

      Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.

        • theneverfox@pawb.social
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          2 hours ago

          It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low

          Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better

          This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google

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      10 hours ago

      this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.