Which is better: uBlock Origin or Ad Nauseam? 📦

14    22 Jul 2020 05:47 by u/Clarion

I'm mostly interested in denying ad revenue to shitty companies. uBlock blocks ads and scripts. Ad Nauseam disrupts tracking by clicking on every ad. Which is more annoying for websites and ad networks?

7 comments

2 u/sukkin 22 Jul 2020 12:48
Generating fake clicks on ads will flag publisher accounts with "invalid traffic". If this kind of traffic persists, it causes damage for the website owners who run ads.
2 u/some_crypto_guy 25 Jul 2020 00:35
Clicking on ads gives revenue to Google and Facebook and hurts the companies advertising.
1 u/Clarion [OP] 25 Jul 2020 19:57
That's a really good point. Although tbh, if I'm on CNN's website or something, I don't really care about the companies advertising there.
1 u/some_crypto_guy 25 Jul 2020 21:03
The companies advertising are mostly small and medium sized businesses. You will be transferring money from small and medium sized businesses to Google and Facebook. If you are on CNN's website, you'll be transferring money from small and medium sized businesses to CNN, Google, and Facebook. That extension is a terrible idea. Use Ublock Origin, not the fraud click extension.
1 u/communism 22 Jul 2020 05:59
Bump
1 u/kilkidd 22 Jul 2020 09:24
uBlock Origin
1 u/kilkidd 22 Jul 2020 09:25
clicking the ad gives revenue