With a looming iron-grip marketers and advertisers have over pretty much anything in their reach, why aren’t the masses collectively making harassment campaigns to them?
I think if we actively told every single marketer off in a prolonged effort, they’d get a hint as to how much of their commercialism we don’t need shoved down our throats.
Let me tell you about my friend adnauseam
Even better then just harassment, it actively wastes advertiser money by messing with their click-through stats. The more people that run it the less valuable advertising online in general becomes.
Also i would say to a leaser degree Adblocking in general is why people arent more active about fighting back, since they work its enough for most folks to just avoid the problem rather then confront it head on.
This only works when the site, ad network and advertiser are three distinct and separate entities.
Given that pretty much all social media now runs its own advertising systems, it won’t actually have much effect. Sure it wastes some money, but given how precise site analytics are, most can actually discern between real clicks and these automated tools.
Not to mention that the whole website for this tool looks like is itself riddled with ads, and also, over 2/3 of all internet traffic happens on mobile devices, which this extension doesn’t support.
Fair point, if the majority of your browisng is social media or phone apps i dont think you are the target audicence for this.
I know google hates it because even before the manifest v3 stuff it was banned by them, its probably a not insignificant part of WHY they forced the move to manifest v3.
With how anyltics work, just like with adblocking in general its a constant cat and mouse game, and that in itself also costs the advertisers money in having to keep up with the anti-advertising methods.
I was going to mention how 80% of that site just looks like ads
Wait so not only will I not see all this junk due to uBlock Origin but the sites I frequent will make a bit more revenue because it’s registering clicks on all their ads???
If the site has pay-per-click ads, yes.
That’s legit, tossing it on my computers, thanks!
Word of warning - you will have more bandwidth usage since the ad clicks are being loaded in the background sandbox, so be careful if you have something like a capped data plan for things such as smartphones.
And that sandbox is secure, right? Aside from the fact that advertizing is unconsentual and drives consumerism, the main reason i have all ads everywhere blocked with no exceptions is because im not about to have ransomware injected onto my device because google doesnt vet their advertizers. Im down to screw the advertizers, but I dont want them having any access to my hardware or my software quite honestly.
Not a computer scientist, but sandboxes have always confused me. Software level i can understand, but it is still physcially running in your machine so i would imagine there is malware that could still effect your hardware.
Adnauseum covers the situation of how and why their solution at length in this research paper linked on their website if you’d like to get the meat and potatoes.
But to be brief, from my knowledge of how the software handles webpages (at least from my limited background as an Electrical Engineering student), the sandbox is only utilized to load enough resources to register the click to the advertising service by the website - you aren’t sent to the redirected site/content, and apart from the image of the ad being able to be seen from the vault in the extension, no external content is loaded. This is a safe way of handling things, especially since the sandbox is not granted access to the full privileges provided to you, the user.
Do people still have those these days ?
Oh good to know, thank you!
YouTube recently broke when it’s enabled, just so people are aware.