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This is literally the internet nowadays without an adblock
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I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable
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.
Is that a browser extension?
Yep. The developer recommends to run it in stead of rather than alongside uBlock Origin, though, which is a dealbreaker for me ๐คท
So you're saying that it does literally everything uBlock does AND fucks over advertisers?
If there's an option to shaft specific sites run by people you dislike too, I'm in! ๐
Guess I'm just gonna have to switch it off and uBlock on for those sites, then ๐
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.