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  • voidsignal@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    If you want to actively shit on them, there is AdNauseam, which is a fork of uBlock Origin but in addition to blocking the ads, it clicks on absolutely everything, sending fake signals. Polluting their database is costing them money and they have to deal with all the noise.

    Not for everyone, but definitely an active hostility towards these fucks.

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      6 days ago

      That seems like it opens the door to a lot of security issues. Part of the reason to use uBlock is that ads are a known threat vector.

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        6 days ago

        All clicks are performed in an isolated sandbox separate from the user area (basically imagine the click register signal going out, but nothing more).

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          6 days ago

          What if you have a multi layered ad blocking setup where you’re using ublock origin and pi.hole and a VPN with blocking?

          • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            The multiple layers of redundancy would likely clash with Adnauseum, yeah. Although that probably is just wasted compute - you may only need one or two of those solutions to have effective adblocking (uBlock for supported browsers, pi.hole for devices unable to have uBlock installed) rather than all 3 at once.