AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse
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HN comment orderI approach this differently. There are a few use cases I go to the web for. For each use case that is not a free browsing I create an electron app, that never executes any code from the web or uses any external style. It only uses XHR to fetch html pages/json data/other static stuff and then transforms that data and uses it in the custom UI designed for the use case. For example one use case is collection of…
Apart from actual malware, this is the only browser extension I know of to have been blacklisted by Google. If you want to use it in Chrome you have to jump through hoops. For the record, I approve of AdNauseam. I have every right to browse the internet how I choose. My computer, my control. I am firmly against the corporization of the internet.
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 688
- Total comments
- 491
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-20 | AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy AbuseFirst breakout · Best thread | deletia | 281 | 276 |
| 2019-05-30 | AdNauseam: Browser extension to fight back against tracking by ad networks | abc-xyz | 207 | 63 |
| 2021-09-07 | AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance | notRobot | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-08-23 | AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of usersLatest 20+ point return | 3np | 196 | 152 |
| 2024-12-29 | AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillanceHall induction | stefankuehnel | 3 | 0 |