Ad Nauseum & TrackMeNot

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?

I'd love to hear you Jow Forumsuys' opinions.

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>plis 4chin tell me what to think
lol no one tell this loser

>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

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.

>automated queries can send you to jail
kek

>I run 400-600 chrome tabs
Doubt

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.

Believe it

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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.

How much more load and bandwidth does it use?

>How much more load and bandwidth does it use?
it depends on what you look at

>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?

Privacy Possum is a cool extension too

Remember when Jow Forums was all about "defeating the final boss of the internet"? You guys have been into some cringy shit.

>uptime 142 days
Okay fag

Jow Forums is reddit. Of course it's all ultra-cringe.

>AdNauseam
>Voluntarily installing software that clicks ads

Have you got brain defects, OP?

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.

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

what the fucfk

Captcha is such a fucking cancer I swear on me mum.

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

rebootlets stay mad

>what the fucfk
I do evoke that response
I'd be glad to answer any questions

>this is completely harmless to us and for that reason we are going to block it from our extension stores

Ok, what are your specs?

>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.

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?

>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)

>pls 4chin keep him guessing
Look in the mirror, nigger.

>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

Nigger how the fuck do you pirate a CPU? did you unironically yoink it off a boat or something?

>inb4 microcode
>inb4 stolen
>inb4 unstable

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>asking for multiple views and opinions is bad

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Return it Jerome.