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   Zane Selvans (zaneselvans@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 16:23:58 JST Zane Selvans

   "Banned by Google, recommended by Firefox" is quite the tagline. Adnauseam is an online advertiser data obfuscation browser plugin:

   https://adnauseam.io/

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 16:23:55 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @ZaneSelvans everybody developed detection for this immediately when it came out, all it does is waste a little bandwidth

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     Zane Selvans (zaneselvans@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 16:23:56 JST Zane Selvans

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     I guess if enough people install this kind of thing, it also poisons the economics of the current advertisement revenue model, at least for anyone who pays for clicks.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 17:58:52 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Rob

     @rantanlan @ZaneSelvans When I was asked to look at it at my previous job, I determined it was already detected and mitigated via existing anti-fraud measures.

     Even if it hadn't been, it was absolutely trivial to detect.

     AFAICT it's not maintained, so I doubt there's been any change.

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     Rob (rantanlan@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 17:58:54 JST Rob

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @ZaneSelvans you got any more info on this ?

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 01:13:25 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Rich Felker
     • Rob

     @dalias @rantanlan @ZaneSelvans loss of third party cookies will hurt the industry more than ad nauseum ever did, and I don't think browser exists extensions are powerful enough to evade mitigations

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 01:13:27 JST Rich Felker

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     • Rob
     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @rantanlan @ryanc @ZaneSelvans It'd be nice to see a much more advanced version...

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     Rob (rantanlan@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 01:13:29 JST Rob

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @ZaneSelvans thought so, sounded too good to be true... thanks.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 01:16:43 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Rich Felker
     • Rob

     @dalias @rantanlan @ZaneSelvans even without cookies, if you have something like ad nauseum clicking everything, the click through rate statistics for one's ip address gives the game away

     It was never more than a piece of performance art

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 01:20:09 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Rich Felker
     • Rob

     @dalias @rantanlan @ZaneSelvans for anyone reading this not aware, if it's not clear from my prior comments, I have been doing ad fraud mitigation work for ten years

     The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less.

     It's profoundly idiotic and ironic that the ad industry effectively pays me to exterminate botnets for a living.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 02:34:02 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Rich Felker
     • Rob

     @rantanlan @dalias @ZaneSelvans money, so much fucking money

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     Rob (rantanlan@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 02:34:04 JST Rob

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     • Rich Felker
     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @dalias @ZaneSelvans this is, indeed, a little weird and somewhat mind boggling when you think about it. But I guess that the world we live in, lol

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 23:54:41 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @SoniEx2 @ZaneSelvans yes, trivially

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     Genders: ♾️, 🟪⬛🟩; Soni L. (soniex2@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 23:54:42 JST Genders: ♾️, 🟪⬛🟩; Soni L.

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @ZaneSelvans can you actually filter out adnauseam clicks from real human clicks from the same IP/user?

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 05:10:24 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @SoniEx2 @ZaneSelvans I'm not sure how useful poisoning is, especially with third party cookies supposedly going away.

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     Genders: ♾️, 🟪⬛🟩; Soni L. (soniex2@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 05:10:25 JST Genders: ♾️, 🟪⬛🟩; Soni L.

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @ZaneSelvans damn, that's too bad.

     guess we need better poisoning/anti-profiling technologies after all...