Mastodawn

I love my ad-blockers 🥰

Proton¹ VPN blocks most of the ads I get served, and the ones that get through are caught by AdNauseam² (which silently clicks ads in the background, costing marketing $ and poisoning metrics).

I've wasted $800+ of marketing budget³ in the last few months—for ads I never saw.

Fuck you in particular, Amazon.

Edit:

Reply-guy credentials: I've been the CDO and head of business analytics at several tech companies, and I have at least some idea how my job works.

¹ Yes, Proton has some serious issues, but I still think it works better than most other solutions when you factor in the ease of setup & operation across multiple products.

² Ad Nauseam uses uBlock Origin.

³ It wastes the company's marketing budget (high- click-through, zero sales), which lowers how much advertising platforms can charge for their services, which hurts those platforms too in the long run.

★ If your reply boils down to "it's useless to do anything, because ____", then 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don't know what to fucking tell ya; roll over.

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Я⊛ḶḶ model ☭Mar 13

@alice

i'm in the same boat with proton that you are. i use eff's privacy badger along with the proton vpn and have yet to see an ad.

but, you've convinced me to give adnauseum a try. i love the stick-it-to-the-man aesthetic!

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MrGrumpyMonkey

@saltywizard @alice You will need to disable Privacy Badger in order to get the full use of Adnauseum. Apparently it does something very similar to Privacy Badger. I've also seen fewer random java popups. Which is something I've been wanting to block, without breaking an entire website, for a while now.