It garbles advertisers’ data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can’t work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!
It garbles advertisers’ data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can’t work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!
That HTTP request would also show up in the advertisers web logs with your origin IP address.
What are they going to do? blacklist me and stop serving me ads?
Oh no
If you care about your information and privacy, why are you giving them your information for nothing?
You do have a point, but… It’s not for nothing. It’s to hurt the predatory ad industry. And what you give up isn’t much: your IP address and likely the referral (so they know you visited website X that was serving their ad). It’s up to you to decide whether that’s an acceptable privacy cost to conduct this kind of guerilla ad warfare.
It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don’t think it’s possible, though.
edit: Just found out from their FAQ:
Potentially possible, but I agree, likely not worth the effort.
I think we’re far past caring about a website logging an IP address.
I’m past caring about giving my IP to a website that I want to use, but what this is doing is handing out your information to every single advertiser that is published on any page you visit. In some cases this plugin would match the definition of “leaking personal data”.
You do you though. I won’t stop you.
Most people dont have static IPs. All the ads would see is web requests from random residential ips from a certain country.
I don’t know about NZ (or wherever you are), but IP addresses for residential access in the US don’t really change all that much. It’s… concerning.
When was the last time you checked the length of your DHCP lease?
Every 10,000 miles. Or after you hit 40. Before putting it on?
Shit. I know this one… uh…
so use a VPN? if you’re the sort of user using AdNauseam, and is concerned about tracking, you’re probably also the sort of user who already uses a VPN.
I’m behind SEVEN proxies!