[YCode]

I wonder if I can hire a botnet to flag my competition out of business.

[TeMPOraL]

I'll one-up you: can we crowdfund a botnet to flag all ads, from everyone?

[kodablah]

You jest, but the the goal of this "coalition" is to do good enough to not make you want to do that. Of course, the human review built in would preclude most of the large botnet attempts. An analogy:

Bittorrent:Netflix::uBlock-Origin:Coalition-for-better-ads

[ThePadawan]

That seems like the thing that (back in my day) 4chan would be 100% behind.

[earenndil]

Look up adnauseum. They're still 100% behind that.

[dooglius]

Even they still have exceptions turned on by default [0].

[0] https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#what-is-the-effs...

[newscracker]

This is exactly what came to my mind when I saw the headline. I'm sure this will happen, and a new arms race will ensue. Users are better off with uBlock Origin and such, instead of relying on advertising companies to handle ads better.

[pavel_lishin]

You could always hire one to drive up their fraudulent clicks, so I don't see why not.

[Cthulhu_]

You could, but if found out you'd probably be put to trial and your own business would be destroyed.