>What is AdNauseam? AdNauseam is an open-source browser extension that leverages obfuscation to frustrate tracking by online advertisers
>Why should I use ADN? To protect from privacy violations via tracking As a mean of protesting the current advertising landscape and censorship
>Isn't it safer just to use an adblocker? Why engage with ad-networks at all? While AdNauseam is far safer than using no blocker at all, it is indeed marginally safer for one to simply use a strong adblocker and protect themselves. But it is also safer to stay at home rather than to attend a protest.
>How does AdNauseam work? Most adblockers (including uBlock, AdBlock-Plus, etc.) work via a combination of blocking and hiding strategies. Requests for some ads are blocked outright, while other Ads (text-only Ads, like those found on Google Search, are one common example) are first downloaded, then made invisible on the page. This is also how AdNauseam works. We simply treat image-Ads above a minimum size as if they were text-only Ads. And just like other adblockers, AdNauseam does block malware and non-visual trackers.
trying hard to push this extension, literally ad nauseam
Wyatt Reyes
Adnauseam is a dishonestly advertised botnet shilled by a samefag group of Discord luddites who cite an article about pajeet clickfarms that they falsely attribute to their meme virus. The assertion that they work in packs is evidenced by the appearance of these threads on many different chans almost at the same time and often with the same wording. Similarly, they self-bump with their own pasta and fake "Tell me more" posts to give the illusion that the real anons support their botnet.
What's critically important to know is that these nu/g/ faggots will try to undermine your concerns about the unavoidable tcp/ip pings you send Google while running Adnauseam by insinuating that you are a Google employee who is incidentally browsing a Vietnamese mudpainting image board at the same time they are. Either that or you are a small business neet who runs adsense and are so insensed by the .3 pennies you theoretically could lose that you would lie about basic Network-layer protocols in order to shut down a meme add-on. Not to mention that every clicked ad is saved IN MEMORY for you to view. Believe it or not, this is a point of pride for the adnauseam shill, "Show me your ads, user!" If I were Google and I wanted people who used adblockers to actually look at my ads, adnauseam would be exactly what I'd invest in.
>What if these guys are just retards who mean well? Any idea that adnauseam shills have your best interest at heart goes out the window once you suggest to them any modicum of responsible behavior. Advise that users proceed with caution and use a VPN and the pack will REEE like you have never seen before. If this doesn't illustrate loud and clear that there's something fishy going on, I don't know what will.
Do not harm your freedoms with this Google pinging placebo and just block javascript. Now, watch this pack of adnauseam faggots call me a shill for unmasking them, and shout "ITS WORKING THE GOOGLE IS MAD XD".
Gabriel Reyes
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Jaxson Gomez
god you niggers are dumb
Liam Young
Just a thought. Sup Forums should make a browser with Adnauseam installed by default and shill it to normalfags.
Jacob Jones
please start on the logo
Luke Powell
That image cracks me up, probably more than any other virgin/Chad image. The Chad shirt really brings it all together somehow
Joseph Russell
marketers sure love their hip memes i'm convinced
Easton Lewis
I sincerely don't think palemoon did wrong as you still can use it on the browser, but being informed that the extension is an "evil extension". Fooling people into using it without telling the real intention would be bad, so you must mean it to use it.
Noah Miller
That's not how adsense works. If Adsense detects invalid clicks it just won't charge the advertiser for it.
Chase Nelson
You never can actually be sure of what the browser is doing, as it always can lie.
Lucas Martin
They're pretty good at detecting automated clicks and AdNauseam doesn't seem to do anything special to avoid detection.
have you read the posts in the forum? Conveniently locked after calling out the dev what do they mean by 'your browser, your way'?
Levi Johnson
>unironically using chrome
Brayden Myers
there is no way to differentiate between the intention of 2 clicks. Especially if they are shown as relevant to you. You can literally go around and click random ads manually if you want.
Gavin Lee
But there are. Google can see that this ID clicks on absolutely everything it sees so it dismisses it. Or it sees that clicking all happens with very short consistent timing so it knows there can't be a human behind it.
And there's probably other more fancy you can do.
Dylan Hill
that's a strawman and not how adn works. It allows and clicks only a portion of all the ads served. Further, there are very different behaviors of customers, you can't really discount them based on some assumption of an ideal user
Samuel Anderson
As far as I understand it clicks every ad of a certain type. (I can't find any good documentation on its exact behavior so I might be wrong about that). This is certainly very easy to detect.
>Further, there are very different behaviors of customers, you can't really discount them based on some assumption of an ideal user Google does. They state explicitly that they use strategies to filter out automated clicks. It's not going to be 100% accurate and might produce some false positives but it's probably good enough.
pointers are in the OP, you can set a frequency how often click ads. At 0% all ads should be blocked just like in ublock and at 100% it should click all the ads - possibly opting you out of all ads.
Google is not magic, they can come up with a rough number to adjust for ineffective ads but they don't have secret super deep learning blockmemed filters. Have you met the recaptcha? Have you ever fooled it? Were you ever denied access to a resource despite clicking all the images as accurately as you can?
because it does not obfuscate your browsing profile
Alexander Butler
I'm not claiming Google is magic but Adsense is their bread and butter. And trying to scam it through bots is as old as Adsense itself. To claim that Google is helpless against a fairly simple method like that is retarded.
Charles Cruz
no, that is appealing to authority. There are problems which are just ~impossible to crack, no matter who tries them.
No one claims Google is helpless, they can refund advertisers and/or adjust their numbers based on how well their ads convert for example. But they will never be able to tell you clicked the dragon dildo ad unironically.
Consider Google is not the only player in the ad biz. If their revenues are hurt directly, it is nice and all, but poisoning profiling and undermine trust is the main benefit imo.
Juan Diaz
>no, that is appealing to authority. Which is not always fallacious. In this case, it's a completely valid use, since it's well in Google's field of expertise.
>There are problems which are just ~impossible to crack, no matter who tries them. If it were impossible to detect fraud somewhat efficiently than clicks would already be completely worthless and Google bankrupt. Trying to cheat Google through automatized clicks is not a new idea. And people who try scam Google that way have developed numerous methods over time, which in turn made Google come up with new methods to fight it.
Adnauseam seems to be trying to join an arms race between Google and scammers with nothing but a stick and a stone.
fake traffic does not mean there are no legit ad clicks
Austin Evans
I have never claimed it's perfect. But it's quite clearly good enough, as evidenced by the fact that Adsense still makes a fuck ton of money.
Hudson Baker
the same way it is a evidence adn works because google banned it from chrome.
Again, if advertisers are hurt, that is the icing on the cake. If it does scale they can be scared. But obfuscating your browsing habits by faking ad clicks remains at the core.
Parker Gray
>the same way it is a evidence adn works because google banned it from chrome. How so? It could've been banned for a million reasons.
Henry Evans
You can change click intervals on adnausem
Austin Richardson
>What is AdNauseam? It's a bitcoin miner, except for ads on your browser.
>Why should I use ADN? Because I want to use my online time and costs to make profit to third parties while gaining nothing.
>Isn't it safer just to use an adblocker? Why engage with ad-networks at all? Because a good gentile will waste his resources so that Google and it's affiliates can profit.
>How does AdNauseam work? It's pretty much a bitcoin miner, except it uses your electricity bill and computer working hours to make money through online ads and links for other people while keeping only the costs to yourself.
>Where can I learn more? You can also straight send money to their bank accounts if you directly contact them to learn more.
>Where is the source? Sup Forums, a very reliable one.
Brayden Gomez
common sense the official reason cited is in the whitepaper if you are interested
>the reason pale moon banned it Which isn't that it hurt Google.
Andrew Perez
which begs the question why isn't adblock/ublock blocked on the same grounds?
in fact, it must 'work', in order to violate the terms
Jaxson Scott
It blocks ads. That's a singular easy to understand purpose.
Jaxson Cook
In the one subsequent email we received, a it was stated that a single extension should not perform “both blocking and hiding,” a claim that is difficult to accept at face value, as most blockers (including uBlock, AdBlock Plus, Adguard, etc.) perform both blocking and hiding, and have not been banned.
Ryan Carter
>The Virgin and Chad >Sup Forums ?????
Nolan Edwards
poorfag here How big of a hit AdNauseam has on performace?
Ryder Ortiz
On your internet bandwidth, a fair bit for obvious reasons if you have the 'silently click ads' option on. Processor wise it hasn't noticeably slowed down Firefox on my ageing machine really.
John Green
the same fucking thread every goddamned day
Jose Ortiz
Technically that would be a post
Dominic Morales
negligible, depending on whether you use content blockers it might be an improvement
>the same shill replies why are you here?
Jaxon Taylor
>Chadnauseum
Top kek
Luis Russell
>That shitty adblock that just hides ads but still waste your bandwidth loading them Yeah, no.
Austin Phillips
>having bandwidth caps
Nicholas Howard
you consider ads wasting bandwidth but too much of a cuck to do something about it?
