Comment by billyp-rva
1 day ago
You would probably just start seeing worse and worse ads [0]. Legitimate ad accounts would stop bidding on your profile so you'd be left with only scam ads.
[0] https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
This is also why when people turn off their adblock they only get ads for crypto scams and malware downloads, reinforcing the notion that even "clean" websites are infested with scams and viruses.
Scams and malware are unacceptable. It doesn't matter if it's all the ads or only some of them. No justification there.
Wasting scammers money seems like it's targeting itself in the right direction.
i used adnauseam a while ago. it clicked on about 1.5 million ads in half a year of usage.
Not sure i can give good reasoning for this, but it felt like doing the right thing. :)
Assuming those numbers are accurate that’s over 8,200 ads per day, every day. Absolutely staggering.