• coolman@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Check out AdNauseum, it’s like ublock origin except it “clicks” on every ad you come across. It uses a little bit more of your bandwidth and ram but I think it’s totally worth it

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      3 months ago

      I know that addon, but decided against.
      Prime argument against it is that a major reason I use ublock is security.
      Ad links lead sometimes to trojan distributing sites, and I really don’t want to catch a drive-by virus…

      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        That’s not how AdNauseam works. It sends a network request, but ignores the response. This basically “pokes” the ad server, triggering a payout.

        FWIW, AdNauseam is based on uBlock Origin.