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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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Suggestion that is counter intuitive. Use their ads against them. If you see a fossil fuel or other large GHG culprit, click on it. It helps the publisher and costs the advertiser money. An ad view is worth pennies, an ad click is worth an order of magnitude or two more.
ETA: Spend a little bit at the destination. Maybe scroll the main page or click on something. It takes seconds.
ETA: This applies to any website or mobile app with ads.
Use the
extension and fuck with advertiser algorithms in general. It works both as an Ad Blocker and adds fake clicks and ads. It even has a feature where they show how much economic damage you are causing per page.
There are other tools designed to screw with data collection, but this is by far my favorite.