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!

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    IMO, this is a bit much.

    It’s one thing to block ads, it’s another thing to essentially participate in an ad fraud scheme. If this simply hurt Google, I would have no issues (they are corrupt criminals, an American oligarchic institution), but you also risking harming independent sites that have done nothing wrong.

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        This is an excessive approach that risks collateral damage to 3rd parties who are not involved.

        I have no issues with blocking ads (internet is unusable without ublock origin + Pihole), but actually simulating clicks is IMO not the right approach.

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          I still don’t get why you think it’s not the right approach. Seems perfectly fine to me.

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            Because this will cause problems for independent website operators.

            Blocking ads is one thing, but this risks fucking up their digital advertising accounts.

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              Isn’t that the point, to fuck up digital advertising accounts so the data is unreliable and can’t be used?

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      Remember, advertising is jist a new word they made to wash over the ick with its original name, propaganda. I’d rather not participate in any propaganda.