What does HackerNews think of AdNauseam?

Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data – digital “noise.” | Aug 2023

Yes https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam and it's a fork of the open-source uBlock Origin.

Please Sell My Personal Information | Jan 2023

This is exactly why I like the concept behind AdNauseam, the UBlock Origin fork that will click every single ad it encounters (but still hide the actual ads).

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!

Sirubo: Packet filtering to block Google and Facebook tracking | Sep 2021

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https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users | May 2019

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Someone just posted this to HN: AdNauseam[0]. It appears to describe what you say.

[0] https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

Improving DuckDuckGo | Nov 2018

thanks ddg for improving user experience and privacy unlike other search engines. No wonder folks are not only blocking but using things like adnauseam - https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

Twitter abandons 'Do Not Track' privacy protection | May 2017

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See https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data | Mar 2017

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam does the same but for ad-tracking. It hides ads from webbrowser but clicks them in background (just sends request to tracking server that user clicked the ad).

AdNauseam Browser Extension: Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To | Nov 2015

The source is here:

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

This actively poisons the advertiser/publisher relationship, which in my opinion is a much harder stance than simply blocking ads.

edit: I've tried it using the abp/adnauseam combo but it only worked on one out of 5 heavily ad laden pages. It's funny, I have so many layers of this stuff running that it took me quite a while before I managed to see any ads at all and then to re-enable just ABP. So, on FF at least, not really recommended by me, maybe someone else has a different experience. (tried it on two different machines)