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by TeMPOraL 3049 days ago
I'll one-up you: can we crowdfund a botnet to flag all ads, from everyone?
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kodablah 3049 days ago
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

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ThePadawan 3049 days ago
That seems like the thing that (back in my day) 4chan would be 100% behind.
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earenndil 3049 days ago
Look up adnauseum. They're still 100% behind that.
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dooglius 3049 days ago
Even they still have exceptions turned on by default [0].

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

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