[HN Gopher] Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless we...
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Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data -
digital "noise."
Author : throwaway154
Score : 51 points
Date : 2023-08-22 16:16 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (noiszy.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (noiszy.com)
| someguy7250 wrote:
| If everyone can band together and generate N fake clicks for
| every 1 real click, And provide N wrong Captcha answers for every
| correct answer,
|
| Then we might just be able to send a message to advertisers and
| those "data anal-lysts"
|
| Question is: Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on
| things? What if I use a bot instead? (Maybe that's why the author
| eventually abandoned this project)
| JohnFen wrote:
| > Question is: Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on
| things?
|
| Liable? For what? You're literally doing nothing damaging or
| illegal.
| xnx wrote:
| Should probably have (2017) in the title. Previously
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002995
| bigmofo wrote:
| I agree. Also, the code repository has no changes since 2017
| (at least on the default branch).
| elitepleb wrote:
| https://adnauseam.io - clicking ads, so you don't have to.
| anjel wrote:
| The Ad Nauseum plugin is probably more than 10 years old. In
| the age of advanced and largely inescapapble browser
| fingerprinting, is it still useful like it once was?
| hot_gril wrote:
| Hard to tell even 10 years ago how effective this strategy
| was. Google banned it from the Chrome extensions store, which
| at least means they felt threatened by the clicks, but that
| doesn't mean you're defeating the tracking.
| Unai wrote:
| How effective could this be? Maybe if it was super popular,
| maybe integrated on some browsers like brave or opera, it might
| send a message, but otherwise, isn't it just a way to give
| money to ad companies?
| leach wrote:
| This looks very interesting
| hot_gril wrote:
| I used this for a while. Funny how it even has a "damage meter"
| estimating how many $ of ads I've clicked on the page. At some
| point Google started occasionally giving me captchas just when
| I searched stuff, saying they detected unusual behavior.
| 3abiton wrote:
| Is it open source?
| hot_gril wrote:
| Yes https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam and it's a fork of
| the open-source uBlock Origin.
| recursive wrote:
| The "get the plugin" link is a 404.
| nxobject wrote:
| This reflects my assumptions more than anything else... my
| first impulse was to go look for the source, but it doesn't
| seem to be open-sourced either. (Of course, I shouldn't expect
| that.)
| faeranne wrote:
| https://github.com/noiszy/noiszy There's no direct link to
| the source, but it's out there.... and very, very broken.
| juujian wrote:
| Hasn't been updated since 2017? :(
| k310 wrote:
| I ran one once and it was a bit too noisy and got me banned
| (temporarily). Are they any better nowadays?
| ivolimmen wrote:
| Banned from what?
| k310 wrote:
| It was a long time ago. An extension injected a lot of clicks
| on random stuff to spoil any profile. I do seem to recall
| that my IP was locked out for a while, probably for machine-
| gunning.
|
| Just my best recollection.
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