This has been my approach for the last 10 years: I live to make adversisers pay out the nose for my attention, then I don't buy products. I'll fill out surveys, invent names as long as the terms are vague enough to allow it, and do anything in my power to give large data-miners as much information to choke on as possible.

I personally think the best way to fix online advertising is to make it so expensive that door-to-door salesman suddenly make financial sense.

I'm sure advertisers have had to invest into detection algorithms because of that addon.

Edit: links:

- Website: https://adnauseam.io/

- Addon for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/

- Addon for Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/adnauseam/...

- Source and instructions for installing on Chrome: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

Note that Google removed AdNauseam from their Chrome Store for interfering with their ad business. The fact they removed AdNauseam but not uBlock Origin is a good sign that the addon is doing something right!