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Any ideas for ad blockers that work with a blacklist rather than the contrary?
I don't want to harm the revenue stream of websites I visit unless their ads are unacceptable. So I want it not blocking ads by default. But I'd really like a way to block the website-breaking ads at Fextralife Elden Ring wiki. That shit is crazy; it breaks the search bar until EVERY ad (including autoplay video, even though I disabled autoplay video in settings) has fully loaded.
I do almost all of my browsing with Firefox for Android.
I wish I could remember the name of an extension I had on my old computer.
It hid all ads, but also clicked them all in the background. It accomplished 4 goals:
I've got a feeling that advertising companies have ways to differentiate real and fake clicks. Best case scenario, they wouldn't count those. Worst case scenario, they could notice that too many clicks are fake and revoke the monetization for a website.
If captchas exist, surely they can use similar methods to catch ad cheats like that.
This is older, and not quite the same but back when I was into private Ragnarok Online servers, it was pretty well-known among server admins that you couldn't ask people to click your ads. Either because you asked, either because they noticed unusual activity, Google would demonetize the ads pretty quickly.