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by jaflo 2066 days ago
You might be interested in AdNauseam, a browser extension that automates this: https://adnauseam.io/
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As someone deeply integrated into the ad serving world, I'd like to remind you that adnauseam traffic is very easy to filter out as noise. Nobody is paying for that traffic.
If someone using adnauseam accidentally clicks an ad (for real), can the ad network count the real click while ignoring the fake ones, or does it poison that users full dataset?

What percentage of adnauseam use do you think is filtered? Is it a full 100%?

Any ad network not considering that traffic as fraudulent will shortly go out of business. That's why I say it declaratively.
How could it be made to work better?
Don't provide outlier data. What is your goal?