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A fact from AdNauseam appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 January 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the browser extension AdNauseam blocks and clicks on advertisements at the same time?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/AdNauseam.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:49, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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... that the AdNauseam ad blocker, which clicks on Google's ads, was banned by Google?
- ALT1: ... that the AdNauseam browser extension blocks and clicks on ads at the same time?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zhu Baosan
- Comment: Sources:
  - AdNauseam blocks and repeatedly sends click events to all ads served by web domains that ignore the user's Do Not Track preference.^[1]^[2]
  - Google banned AdNauseam from the Chrome Web Store in January 2017...^[3]

Created by Newslinger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

— Newslinger talk 10:12, 22 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

New enough and long enough. QPQ present. ALT1 is ready; Newslinger, the article doesn't say Google's ads are clicked on explicitly so I can't accept ALT0 until that is changed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:33, 22 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
- Hi Sammi Brie, thanks for the review. I've since added MIT Technology Review's report, which explicitly states that AdNauseam clicks on Google's ads. The corresponding article text is: "In a January 2021 experiment conducted in collaboration with Nissenbaum using test accounts on the Google Ads and Google AdSense platforms, MIT Technology Review confirmed that AdNauseam's automatic clicks of Google's ads on a test website accumulated expenses for a Google Ads advertiser account and revenue for an AdSense publisher account."^[4] Would this be enough to satisfy the sourcing requirement? — Newslinger talk 20:18, 22 December 2024 (UTC) Edited to update text, correcting phrasing error — Newslinger talk 23:15, 26 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  - This resolves the ALT0 issue. Both hooks are ready to go. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:39, 22 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

References

↑ Pangburn, DJ (25 April 2017). "How Google Blocked A Guerrilla Fighter In The Ad War". Fast Company. Retrieved 15 December 2024. Rather than just concealing them, the app sends noise into the system by automatically clicking on ads in the background, muddling efforts by advertisers and ad networks like Google's to determine your preferences and your identity as you browse the web. [...] In its most recent update, AdNauseum permitted sites that complied with the Do Not Track policy to display ads to users, and refrained from clicking on those ads. (Because Google does not comply with DNT, the app blocked Google resources such as Doubleclick.net and Google Analytics.)
↑ "Lying to Facebook could help protect your data". CBC Radio. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2024. One example is the browser extension AdNauseam, which will simulate clicking every ad that appears on a page many, many times.
↑ Pangburn, DJ (25 April 2017). "How Google Blocked A Guerrilla Fighter In The Ad War". Fast Company. Retrieved 15 December 2024. In early January, the artist and technologist Daniel Howe opened an email from Google informing him that his three-year-old ad-blocking app, AdNauseam, had just been banned from the company's Chrome Web store.
↑ McGuigan, Lee (6 January 2021). "This tool lets you confuse Google's ad network, and a test shows it works". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 22 December 2024. Google filtered out clicks on our site by the automated browser that ran for three days. But it did not filter out the vast majority of the other clicks, either by ordinary AdNauseam users or even in the higher-volume automated tests, where browsers were clicking upwards of 100 Google ads per day.

[Pangburn_Apr_2017-1] Pangburn, DJ (25 April 2017). "How Google Blocked A Guerrilla Fighter In The Ad War". Fast Company. Retrieved 15 December 2024. Rather than just concealing them, the app sends noise into the system by automatically clicking on ads in the background, muddling efforts by advertisers and ad networks like Google's to determine your preferences and your identity as you browse the web. [...] In its most recent update, AdNauseum permitted sites that complied with the Do Not Track policy to display ads to users, and refrained from clicking on those ads. (Because Google does not comply with DNT, the app blocked Google resources such as Doubleclick.net and Google Analytics.)

[CBC_Radio_Apr_2018-2] "Lying to Facebook could help protect your data". CBC Radio. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2024. One example is the browser extension AdNauseam, which will simulate clicking every ad that appears on a page many, many times.

[Pangburn_Apr_2017_2-3] Pangburn, DJ (25 April 2017). "How Google Blocked A Guerrilla Fighter In The Ad War". Fast Company. Retrieved 15 December 2024. In early January, the artist and technologist Daniel Howe opened an email from Google informing him that his three-year-old ad-blocking app, AdNauseam, had just been banned from the company's Chrome Web store.

[McGuigan_Jan_2021-4] McGuigan, Lee (6 January 2021). "This tool lets you confuse Google's ad network, and a test shows it works". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 22 December 2024. Google filtered out clicks on our site by the automated browser that ran for three days. But it did not filter out the vast majority of the other clicks, either by ordinary AdNauseam users or even in the higher-volume automated tests, where browsers were clicking upwards of 100 Google ads per day.

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