<story><title>AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse</title><url>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanswork</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like the ads just appear while you&amp;#x27;re sitting around doing nothing.  You see the ads when you are receiving something with them.  The ad companies are paying for your attention with the content you consume.</text></item><item><author>_m7bj</author><text>&amp;gt;3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.&lt;p&gt;The goal highly specific. It is to make Internet advertising artificially expensive, and it is to make harvested data about users inaccurate.&lt;p&gt;There are no &amp;quot;good guys&amp;quot; on the other side. People shouldn&amp;#x27;t track me, that one&amp;#x27;s obvious, but they also shouldn&amp;#x27;t advertise at me, ever.&lt;p&gt;Human attention is extremely valuable, by far the most expensive commodity on the planet. If advertising companies want my attention so damn bad, they can pay me ~$65000 a year for it, same as my employer does. Otherwise, they can piss off.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m out on this.&lt;p&gt;1. They say it&amp;#x27;s legally not click fraud. To me it sounds like regular fraud: &amp;quot;deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right&amp;quot;.  I&amp;#x27;m not concerned with breaking the law I just don&amp;#x27;t want to act in the spirit of it.&lt;p&gt;2. This could hurt small startups that are very carefully managing an ad budget.  They say the market will adjust, but until it does small startups take a hit.  People we know.&lt;p&gt;3. I dislike activism without clear objectives.  I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_m7bj</author><text>My attention is more valuable than that. It&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x2F;my&amp;#x2F; attention, I get to set the price, and I don&amp;#x27;t accept their offer. They&amp;#x27;re welcome to block me from their websites, if they feel that&amp;#x27;s not acceptable.</text></comment>
<story><title>AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse</title><url>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanswork</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like the ads just appear while you&amp;#x27;re sitting around doing nothing.  You see the ads when you are receiving something with them.  The ad companies are paying for your attention with the content you consume.</text></item><item><author>_m7bj</author><text>&amp;gt;3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.&lt;p&gt;The goal highly specific. It is to make Internet advertising artificially expensive, and it is to make harvested data about users inaccurate.&lt;p&gt;There are no &amp;quot;good guys&amp;quot; on the other side. People shouldn&amp;#x27;t track me, that one&amp;#x27;s obvious, but they also shouldn&amp;#x27;t advertise at me, ever.&lt;p&gt;Human attention is extremely valuable, by far the most expensive commodity on the planet. If advertising companies want my attention so damn bad, they can pay me ~$65000 a year for it, same as my employer does. Otherwise, they can piss off.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m out on this.&lt;p&gt;1. They say it&amp;#x27;s legally not click fraud. To me it sounds like regular fraud: &amp;quot;deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right&amp;quot;.  I&amp;#x27;m not concerned with breaking the law I just don&amp;#x27;t want to act in the spirit of it.&lt;p&gt;2. This could hurt small startups that are very carefully managing an ad budget.  They say the market will adjust, but until it does small startups take a hit.  People we know.&lt;p&gt;3. I dislike activism without clear objectives.  I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not like the ads just appear while you&amp;#x27;re sitting around doing nothing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;literally like that&lt;/i&gt;. I open a random webpage, wait a few seconds, and here they are. I visit my aunt, and don&amp;#x27;t even get to open the browser before BAM, ads everywhere!</text></comment>