If everyone can band together and generate N fake clicks for every 1 real click, And provide N wrong Captcha answers for every correct answer,
Then we might just be able to send a message to advertisers and those "data anal-lysts"
Question is: Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things? What if I use a bot instead? (Maybe that's why the author eventually abandoned this project)
> Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things?
If you count this, some sites might think you're a bot or otherwise hint that they don't want to serve you. I've had Google make me solve captchas occasionally because I was using Ad Nauseam.
The Ad Nauseum plugin is probably more than 10 years old. In the age of advanced and largely inescapapble browser fingerprinting, is it still useful like it once was?
Hard to tell even 10 years ago how effective this strategy was. Google banned it from the Chrome extensions store, which at least means they felt threatened by the clicks, but that doesn't mean you're defeating the tracking.
1) Increase revenue for the advertising companies you don't like
2) Cost advertisers a lot of money (some of who are probably companies you like)
3) Increases revenue for publishers with a ton of ads on their page
It's not obvious to me how contributing to click fraud benefits you as the user. If anything, it benefits the ad companies by driving more revenue to them.
I used this for a while. Funny how it even has a "damage meter" estimating how many $ of ads I've clicked on the page. At some point Google started occasionally giving me captchas just when I searched stuff, saying they detected unusual behavior.
How effective could this be? Maybe if it was super popular, maybe integrated on some browsers like brave or opera, it might send a message, but otherwise, isn't it just a way to give money to ad companies?
This reflects my assumptions more than anything else... my first impulse was to go look for the source, but it doesn't seem to be open-sourced either. (Of course, I shouldn't expect that.)
It was a long time ago. An extension injected a lot of clicks on random stuff to spoil any profile. I do seem to recall that my IP was locked out for a while, probably for machine-gunning.
Then we might just be able to send a message to advertisers and those "data anal-lysts"
Question is: Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things? What if I use a bot instead? (Maybe that's why the author eventually abandoned this project)