AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 7:31 AM UTC

j33zusjuice wrote: post #78

jrflowers wrote: post #32

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I like this reasoning. Either we voluntarily stop behaving in a way that advertisers don’t like or we will be forced to stop behaving in ways that advertisers don’t like. The only likely or rational future is that we all stop acting in ways advertisers don’t like, one way or another. We may be best served by proactively rethinking all of our computing habits to make sure they more closely align with AdSense’s goals f…

I’ve seen an incomplete proposal from an adtech CEO that suggests we have a global user ID that we set somewhere, somehow (the tech details aren’t worked out, but the data would be stored centrally in some ad watchdog type org, something like the PCI-DSS Council), and publishers could offer varying levels of access to their site for varying levels of access to your data for advertisements. The user would be able to r…

Post by e2le » Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 8:16 AM UTC

neilv wrote: post #20

As someone who's been interested in tracker defeating since that became a thing around 25 years ago, I'm just a little concerned that something like this AdNauseum -- if ever adopted significantly -- could invite blowback that also hits more conventional tracker blocking, or other current liberties. Not making certain HTTP requests seems to be protected right now. However, click fraud, with which this might be confla…

Post by reacharavindh » Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 9:01 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #40

It took me a long time to come around to using ad blockers. For a long time, my feeling was, "if you don't like ads don't use the web. You owe it to those websites to look at their ads". But then the ads just go so resource intense that I came around and finally installed an ad blocker. This however still feels one step too far. The ad blocker protects me from the resource utilization of ads. But if you're already bl…

Post by Gud » Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 9:09 AM UTC

Timshel wrote: post #130

neilv wrote: post #20

As someone who's been interested in tracker defeating since that became a thing around 25 years ago, I'm just a little concerned that something like this AdNauseum -- if ever adopted significantly -- could invite blowback that also hits more conventional tracker blocking, or other current liberties. Not making certain HTTP requests seems to be protected right now. However, click fraud, with which this might be confla…

We are already there with chrome between the fact that you can't install this without dev mode and the recent "Web Environment Integrity" ...

Post by no_time » Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 9:22 AM UTC

8bitsrule wrote: post #111

paulryanrogers wrote: post #90

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What does taking back the power look like?

Something more BBS-like. (Something like this: http://www.textfiles.com/100/ ) You send a detailed list of what's being offered, and expected. I return a request for exactly what I'd like to get ... and nothing else ... along with my list of what I'm willing to send in return. If you don't like my list, deny my request. If you deliberately send me something I didn't checkmark, or change your stated expectations, I'll…