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Inspired by the discussion in 'they already have your data' I was reminded that AdNauseam exists. I rarely see it mentioned in privacy circles but the idea seems attractive to me, I've used it before and since it's based on uBlock Origin it was just as effective in adblocking and the "poisoning" itself unobtrusive. How do you guys feel about it? Are there reasons it should be avoided?

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[-] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Do you know if there are any writeups on this identification of falsw positives?

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Not off hand but here is a product tailored to advertisers that claims to be able to do it https://www.anura.io/product

It stands to reason that this company must be successful in doing it if they are able to stay in business. That means ad companies are paying for it so they see value in it. So they are successful in eliminating or reducing their false positives.

This was a quick search as I'm on mobile and in a meeting at the minute but you can be sure the big guys have in house teams for this eg Google, Meta etc

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 11 points 10 hours ago

You're giving them way too much credit. These companies sell the illusion of success. It's in their interest to only find just as many false positives to seem like they have it under control. They make money from these false positives, after all.

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