joshchandra

I was reacting to its GitHub:

This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork. This is the FireFox version of the project, for Chrome see https://github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome.

So I'm wondering which active fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could've been clearer; my bad.

Careful: that then enters the world of ad fraud, which randos like us doing the clicking isn't considered as.

Fascinating, thanks for sharing! What is the best, current Firefox fork of this one, if you know?

You incorrectly use the term ad fraud, which addresses advertisers themselves automating clicks on their own links to generate fake income. There is nothing wrong with people-with-no-corporate-interest who click.

Oops, lol, I forgot about the date. This has existed for years.

Totally, it's up to you. The idea for fake-clickers is the long game: the marketers think they're landing clicks over months or possibly even years, but ~~will~~ may slowly realize (gotta account for the stubborn ones) that it's ineffective and eventually pivot to different approaches, hopefully ones that involve less tracking (I can't imagine what any worse approach could be, at least).

this will cause problems for independent website operators.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-and-why-does-adnauseam-make-exceptions-for-non-tracking-ads

This may seem to be a legit criticism at first, but AdNauseam allows ethical ads so anyone using good, safe stuff should not get affected. There is an entire section in AN's documentation about not clicking on this specific ad group.

As for the vast majority of the rest who don't use ethical, non-tracking ads: let 'em have it! ⚔ AdNauseam users (and users of any similar tools; I don't know what else is out there) must first hold a fundamental view that the tracking world is extremely violating, of which ads are a subset. Long gone are the glory days when ads were funny, appealing, and well-made, and didn't track people; ad companies gather data on us and if they get hacked, that info flies out in the open: all without our knowledge or true consent. Is that something you're fine with? Additionally, more and more ads are proving to be entire scams, or otherwise shams that did not fully deliver, that have harmed consumers who legitimately click through.

The long-term goal is to teach those who use malicious ads that this is an unacceptable, unsustainable practice and that they need to market in better ways if they wanna keep doing this (again, going back to the pre-Internet glory days when Coca-Cola, etc. ran awesome TV ads and when there was no or nearly no account-tracking—or just any semblance of it).

Absolutely fascinating and promising. Thanks for sharing. Any downvoters clearly didn't read the article.

Thanks, though do you have a link for Anomaly? I can't seem to pull up anything.

Hmm, 5 for free, I see; thanks for sharing. Is your provider Proton Mail?

Wait, so you literally have hundreds of accounts? How do you manage them all?

Thanks, I have more to learn about this topic!