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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you'll enjoy a fun browser addon then! - adnauseum

it clicks on every. single. ad both doing what you're doing, but also poisoning the data Google has on you. From their website:

As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's a cute idea but it completely ignores that it isn't 2005 anymore. Algorithms are good enough to detect that.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

eh, on the off chance they aren't, why not. I don't see those ads anyway and I do enjoy being a nuisance, even if a minor one