Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data – digital “noise.” (opens in new tab)

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?

In most cases, using this tool will:

1) Increase revenue for the advertising companies you don't like

2) Cost advertisers a lot of money (some of who are probably companies you like)

3) Increases revenue for publishers with a ton of ads on their page

It's not obvious to me how contributing to click fraud benefits you as the user. If anything, it benefits the ad companies by driving more revenue to them.

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.

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?

This looks very interesting

> Question is: Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things?

Liable? For what? You're literally doing nothing damaging or illegal.

> Will I be held liable for randomly clicking on things?

If you count this, some sites might think you're a bot or otherwise hint that they don't want to serve you. I've had Google make me solve captchas occasionally because I was using Ad Nauseam.

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.)

Banned from what?

I agree. Also, the code repository has no changes since 2017 (at least on the default branch).