UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoHow I imagine life without an adblocker must be likelemmy.mlimagemessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1755arrow-down15
arrow-up1750arrow-down1imageHow I imagine life without an adblocker must be likelemmy.mlUltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squarePissnpink@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoIf you click the ad does the company have to pay like a fraction of a cent or something for a click through? Like if I always click on the ads can I make them pay for having waisted my time if it’s only a little bit?
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months agoyou’ll enjoy a fun browser addon then! - adnauseum it clicks on every. single. ad both doing what you’re doing, but also poisoning the data Google has on you. From their website: As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile
minus-square𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoThat’s a cute idea but it completely ignores that it isn’t 2005 anymore. Algorithms are good enough to detect that.
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoeh, on the off chance they aren’t, why not. I don’t see those ads anyway and I do enjoy being a nuisance, even if a minor one
minus-squaremenemen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 months agoMight be contraproductive if google earns more with longer ads.
If you click the ad does the company have to pay like a fraction of a cent or something for a click through? Like if I always click on the ads can I make them pay for having waisted my time if it’s only a little bit?
you’ll enjoy a fun browser addon then! - adnauseum
it clicks on every. single. ad both doing what you’re doing, but also poisoning the data Google has on you. From their website:
That’s a cute idea but it completely ignores that it isn’t 2005 anymore. Algorithms are good enough to detect that.
eh, on the off chance they aren’t, why not. I don’t see those ads anyway and I do enjoy being a nuisance, even if a minor one
Might be contraproductive if google earns more with longer ads.