[flixic]

It speaks volumes that Google allows many ad blocking extensions in Chrome Web Store, but blocked an extension that was doing exactly that:

https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

[ec109685]

Does that actually work? It seems like clicking on every ad would be easy to filter out.

[sodality2]

Probably, but it would "trash which "cohort" Google thinks I belong in"; there's really no reason to fool Google into putting you into a specific cohort as opposed to just a random/"broken" one; either way, your true cohort is obscured.

Unless you were studying the impact of ads you receive based on cohort, like https://their.tube.

[throwaway3699]

More likely FLoC will place you in a cohort also full of other AdNauseam users.

[thatguy0900]

I remember reading about it on here a while ago and some Googler said that it was easily identified as automated clicking on their end, they have pretty sophisticated antifraud systems.