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I try to post mostly positive things, which can be hard these days, but here's a good one:

https://adnauseam.io/

It is a browser extension that silently clicks on all those ads, polluting the advertisers' data streams.

If used by enough people, it would mean that, to the advertiser, it'll look like they got lots of clicks buy not lots of sales.

This means the value of clicks will go down, which means less profit for people who serve up ads.

If you promote this extension, you will be hurting American companies who are just trying to make ab buck. Companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, X, and others. You wouldn't want to make life more difficult for them... would you? 😈🤣

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FortisLignorum 1y ago

Step by step tutorial on how to download viruses.

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

Do you believe that all apps that do not come from a centralized, corporate controlled app store are viruses?

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FortisLignorum 1y ago

Not at all. It is the "auto-click on everything that pops up" that is suspicious.

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

Yeah, that was the first thing they mentioned in their requirements is dealing with malvertising.

I didn't get to the section that covers how they met that goal yet, but if you are interested I can let you know what their approach is so you can see if it sounds sufficient.

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

I found the answer in III(a) of their academic paper. It makes an AJAX request and does not load the response into the DOM.

The paper talks about the problem of this being distinguishable from a real click (which would parse the response, render HTML & CSS, execute JS, parse CSS, possibly play audio and video files, etc.).

The additional risk in their current implementation seems minimal. Future versions may depend more on sandboxing technologies for protection.