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[โ€“] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Its purely out of spite, plus, im not clicking anything.

I run the full ad blocking suite anyway and see more ads watching a sportsball game with the family than I do on my home network over the course of months.

  1. I dont see the ads
  2. The data they generate is wrong and random, if that is used to train AI it runs the risk of poisioning the model.
  3. The site Im on gets paid by the ad vendor, even though the interaction is fraudulent.

I call it a win-win

[โ€“] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Blocking ads definitely doesn't help the site get paid, that's what I was talking about above.

For the same reason, it's probably not doing any meaningful "poisoning" either.

[โ€“] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Then go read what the AdNaseum plugin does and we will talk then.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/

Whatever table you imagine clicks to be stored in, add a column called "Using adblocker".

Filter out any rows where that column = true.