I haven't seen this discussion in a while, so I thought I'd see if I could get some opinions flowing. >What is Jow Forums's opinion on advertisement profile obfuscation? >Is it better than advertisement blocking? >What are the advantages/disadvantages of having an extension that randomly clicks ads for you? What are the advantages/disadvantages of having an extension that sends random search queries for you?
>plis 4chin tell me what to think lol no one tell this loser
Nathan Diaz
>What is Jow Forums's opinion on advertisement profile obfuscation? It's great except for the processor load and bandwidth consumed. Unfortunately, it's too great of a price to pay for me personally because I run 400-600 chrome tabs But for you tablets, it would be fine
Kayden Perez
Didn't Google AND Bing come out and confirm that obfuscation is completely meaningless? Their algorithm can easily tell when it's a robot doing it and when it's a person.
Secondly, some guy in Finnland (or Iceland was it?) got prison time over the search plugin sending "child porn" to Google or something.
Ayden Green
>automated queries can send you to jail kek
David Torres
>I run 400-600 chrome tabs Doubt
Gavin Perry
This. You run 50+ and you're chuging back more RAM than OP's mom chugs BBC.
Not him but why not? It's not like you can prove that you weren't the one who sent the query (because if you could Skynet would have just filtered it out based on that proof) and "oh I have a bot that sends in random queries, honest!" would be the number-one excuse for literally every pedophile alive.
Color me retarded. Unless you got that image and renamed it (in which case you are way more retarded than I am) then consider your point proven.
David Moore
How much more load and bandwidth does it use?
Luke Wood
>How much more load and bandwidth does it use? it depends on what you look at
William Johnson
>Not him but why not? It's not like you can prove that you weren't the one who sent the query (because if you could Skynet would have just filtered it out based on that proof) and "oh I have a bot that sends in random queries, honest!" would be the number-one excuse for literally every pedophile alive. This actually raises an interesting question: what combination of words can the search query put together? Can the ad-clicker click on stuff for you that is illegal in your country? How does the law respond to this?
Logan Nelson
Privacy Possum is a cool extension too
Adrian Lewis
Remember when Jow Forums was all about "defeating the final boss of the internet"? You guys have been into some cringy shit.
Jack Ward
>uptime 142 days Okay fag
Tyler Barnes
Jow Forums is reddit. Of course it's all ultra-cringe.
Blake Hernandez
>AdNauseam >Voluntarily installing software that clicks ads
Have you got brain defects, OP?
Isaiah Johnson
The theory is that it defies what advertisement is meant to be. It's suppose to be a piece of media created to make you want to buy something. It's success lives and dies on how many times it's been clicked and watched.
With an addon like this you are essentially removing both those components and thus making the advertisement useless.
Joseph King
You won't hear from anons using it because they will be unable to post due to captcha that will take an hour to complete only to fail
Henry Howard
what the fucfk
Henry Ortiz
Captcha is such a fucking cancer I swear on me mum.
Colton Miller
would be great if it worked as advertised. Sadly it does not hide the ads on my installation.
Obfuscating is a good idea, do not believe they can filter this shit, that's just damage control for investors. They said adblocking is peanuts, yet Google is shit scared and tries to deprecate blocking apis and subvert the discussion with the Coalition for Better Ads shit. >we know you only ironically clicked that dragon dildo ad, but clicking the other bad dragon was genuine
lmao
you can say adnau has little to no effect on ad budgets, but it actually fucked over palemoon and blacklisting it in the chrome store was a big PR blunder
Chase Edwards
rebootlets stay mad
>what the fucfk I do evoke that response I'd be glad to answer any questions
Kevin Harris
>this is completely harmless to us and for that reason we are going to block it from our extension stores
Dylan Rivera
Ok, what are your specs?
Connor Price
>Implying google doesn't just filter traffic generated by the thing Doesn't it basically fake a click on EVERY SINGLE ad immediately? That seems ridiculously easy to detect. And AdSense can probably easily detect whether it was a real click or a generated one, for example by using the IsTrusted property on the click event.
Sebastian Miller
Of course. Why would they let that type of thing exist? Even if it wasn't harmful to them, would that really set the right example?
Lincoln Scott
>Ok, what are your specs? dual 22 core pirated CPUs dual noctua 120mm coolers phanteks enthoo pro case corsair rm850 psu 2x thermalright 140mm case fans 128GB DDR4 2400 ECC (single rank) mirrored 860 evo 500GB boot drive mirrored 2TB drives (one HGST, one seagate) mirrored 4TB drives HGST An additional 2TB and 4TB drive for backup GTX960 4GB LG 16x Blu Ray burner Unicomp Model M (I have 5 real model M keyboards that need repair, including 2 that I've personally owned since the early 90s) Gateway HD2400 monitor IOGear 4 port KVM switch Logitech cheapo mouse Sennheiser HD558 headphones (this is a workstation, not for gaming despite the vidya card)
Cameron Hughes
>pls 4chin keep him guessing Look in the mirror, nigger.
Julian Myers
>Doesn't it basically fake a click on EVERY SINGLE ad immediately? That seems ridiculously easy to detect.
good job, you killed the strawman. [spoiler]it does not[/spoiler], you can look at the source
Josiah Myers
Nigger how the fuck do you pirate a CPU? did you unironically yoink it off a boat or something?