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AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking (adnauseam.io)
submitted 1 day ago by joshchandra@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing is random

In bot cases like this you would have a proxy list that it “randomly” picks from

[–] lumony@lemmings.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No, he means that's literally not how IP addresses work. It's not about "nothing being random."

You don't just "pick an IP address" from a list lmao and send it as though it's not your actual IP. You would need to literally connect to a proxy and send the request through that proxy in order for ads to see an IP different than you own.

My god, are you people trolls or just the next generation taking hold? The dumbing down of Western society is in full force.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

You would need to literally connect to a proxy and send the request through that proxy in order for ads to see an IP different than you own.

Yes that is what was proposed, you’re the only one who seems unclear on it

[–] lumony@lemmings.world -2 points 17 hours ago

Where is it being proposed?