Poison for Google’s ad network

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AdNauseam is a browser extension that clicks every ad for you, poisoning the data profile Google keeps of you. (If you are still seeing ads that is.) The extension was tested at Cornell Tech:

The test of AdNauseam. | MIT Technology Review
A researcher reports the results of an experiment, designed to test whether a browser plugin called AdNauseam, which seeks to confound targeted advertising, works.

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This is really cool!

Although I already have my suspicions that most advertising data is worthless already.

I still think it's far more worth it to just simply not even download ads in the first place, since it saves a pretty significant amount of bandwidth, which is likely to be especially useful for phone users and other metered connections

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You surly save bandwidth, although I would recommend to stay away from AdBlock Plus who are plainly extorting content creators with their "acceptable ads" scheme. If you need a browser extension use ublock origin or better yet use device wide DNS filtering instead.

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You surly save bandwidth, although I would recommend to stay away from AdBlock Plus who are plainly extorting content creators with their "acceptable ads" scheme. If you need a browser extension use ublock origin or better yet use device wide DNS filtering instead.

I can vouch for ublock origin. Dns level filtering can be a pain but there's always the good old fashioned hosts file