AdNauseam
AdNauseam is a browser extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from surveillance and tracking by advertising networks.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Google Chrome
- uBlock Origin
- Opera
- Firefox
Features
- Block Trackers
- Obfuscation
- Autoclicking on ads
- Browser extension
AdNauseam News & Activities
Recent activities
- tomyan112 reviewed AdNauseam
It clicks ads on sites, but hide them from end users. This would ruins companies' KPIs and burn their money.
- ant-xpg liked AdNauseam
- POX added AdNauseam as alternative to Native Video
- spame liked AdNauseam
- POX added AdNauseam as alternative to Zen Ad-Blocker
- Ituaf added Block Trackers as a feature to AdNauseam
- xlin added AdNauseam as alternative to uBlock Origin
- Ituaf added AdNauseam as alternative to AdAway, uBlock Origin Lite, BlockBear and AdBlocker Ultimate
AdNauseam information
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Web BrowsersGitHub repository
- 4,586 Stars
- 191 Forks
- 177 Open Issues
- Updated Oct 10, 2024
What is AdNauseam?
As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating Ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
AdNauseam is a free browser extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from tracking by advertising networks. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying users' discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and facilitate bulk surveillance agendas.
AdNauseam joins a broader class of technical systems that attempt to serve ethical, political, and expressive ends. In light of the industry's failure to self-regulate or otherwise address the excesses of network tracking, AdNauseam allows individual users to take matters into their own hands, fighting back against unilateral surveillance. Taken in this light, the software follows an approach similar to that of TrackMeNot, employing obfuscation as a strategy to shift the balance of power between the trackers and the tracked. For further information on this approach, please see this paper.
Comments and Reviews
Blocking ads does not stop users from being fingerprinted. In fact the tighter users lock down ads with privacy controls, the more unique the profile gets.
AdNauseam works by clicking random ads on pages you visit, creating a random pattern that helps hide users among everyone else. Further "obfuscation" can be enabled by also installing TMN TrackMeNot - a separate app that works with AdNauseam by creating extra searches that also help obscure users' own searches.
The TMN app includes an academic developer from the AN team.
Proof that these work is in the fact that Google has blocked AdNauseam from its app store.
tl;dr blocking ads is so 20th century - hiding in plain sight is the 21st century version!
Improves security by obfuscating targeting systems, removes ads on web sites.
It clicks ads on sites, but hide them from end users. This would ruins companies' KPIs and burn their money.
Its uBlock Origin with enhanced features.
It's mostly like Ublock Origin, but instead of just blocking harmful ads, it allows you to protest.