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by ec109685 1834 days ago
Does that actually work? It seems like clicking on every ad would be easy to filter out.
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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.

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