Its purely out of spite, plus, im not clicking anything. Advertisment is theft.
I run the full ad blocking suite anyway and see more ads watching a sportsball game with the family than I do on my home network over the course of months.
I dont see the ads
The data they generate is wrong and random, if that is used to train AI it runs the risk of poisioning the model.
The site Im on gets paid by the ad vendor, even though the interaction is fraudulent.
It’s a cute idea, but they would just incorporate some amount of false clicks into their metrics.
Exactly, its data poisioning.
If someone is trying to build an ad profile on you (even if you personally dont see the ads) then it feeds them junk data instead of real date.
If you think clicking all the ads makes a meaningful difference, then all the power to you.
Its purely out of spite, plus, im not clicking anything. Advertisment is theft.
I run the full ad blocking suite anyway and see more ads watching a sportsball game with the family than I do on my home network over the course of months.
I call it a win-win
Blocking ads definitely doesn’t help the site get paid, that’s what I was talking about above.
For the same reason, it’s probably not doing any meaningful “poisoning” either.
Then go read what the AdNaseum plugin does and we will talk then.
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/
Whatever table you imagine clicks to be stored in, add a column called “Using adblocker”.
Filter out any rows where that column = true.
Yeah they can probably just ignore your entire profile because it’s gives no useful insight, and that’s the point.