I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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I do when it is advertising something I hate. Publishers get dollars for clicks, pennies for impressions. That way I force someone I dislike to give money to someone I like.
I use adnauseum on my computer so it blocks the ads, but also sends a request simulating a click to the ad network. Based on average CPM, I've cost advertisers like $300 so far.
Interesting. But wouldn't that still decrease my privacy? Advertisers still won't know which ads I'm interested in, but they will know what sites I visit and can still build a profile from that data.
Some people care more about fucking advertisers than privacy, as long as they don't have to suffer through the ads themselves. But yeah, blocking is more private than fake clicking.
Is that a browser extension?
Yes but Google banned them from the extension store so if you're using Chromium you need to sideload it.