• Pissnpink@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    If you click the ad does the company have to pay like a fraction of a cent or something for a click through? Like if I always click on the ads can I make them pay for having waisted my time if it’s only a little bit?

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      3 months ago

      you’ll enjoy a fun browser addon then! - adnauseum

      it clicks on every. single. ad both doing what you’re doing, but also poisoning the data Google has on you. From their website:

      As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        That’s a cute idea but it completely ignores that it isn’t 2005 anymore. Algorithms are good enough to detect that.

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          eh, on the off chance they aren’t, why not. I don’t see those ads anyway and I do enjoy being a nuisance, even if a minor one

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      That’s the idea behind the AdNauseum browser extension. “Click” on every single ad so that the data becomes worthless and the companies that are advertising have a negative return on investment. But it does mean that the ad server company gets more money.