• @[email protected]
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    105 days ago

    AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks’ databases

    Do those clicks appear to be coming from me, or from some random fake identity?

    False floods of data or not, there are some things I’d rather not have any identifiable contact with at all.

    • @SolOrion
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      5 days ago

      From my understanding, they appear to be coming from you- that’s kinda the point.

      • Zoot
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        45 days ago

        It should atleast poison any data they gather about you right? Since you’re not ever going to realistically click on any of these ads, it would now look like anything and everything interests you

        • @[email protected]
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          24 days ago

          it would now look like anything and everything interests you

          That could get you on some interesting lists.

          Personally, I’d rather not have any database think I was interested in certain topics, no matter how false that data is.

        • @SolOrion
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          25 days ago

          That’s the point. You can’t really build an advertising profile if they literally engage with every single thing all the time.