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For the Latin term, see <a href="/wiki/Ad_nauseam" title="Ad nauseam">Ad nauseam</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Ad_nauseam_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Ad nauseam (disambiguation)">Ad nauseam (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive 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title="Programmer">Original author(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Daniel Howe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Nissenbaum" title="Helen Nissenbaum">Helen Nissenbaum</a></li> <li>Mushon Zer-Aviv</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Daniel Howe</li> <li>Sally Chen<sup id="cite_ref-GitHub_readme_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GitHub_readme-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Alberto Harres<sup id="cite_ref-GitHub_readme_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GitHub_readme-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">2014</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Repository_(version_control)" title="Repository (version control)">Repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam">github<wbr />.com<wbr />/dhowe<wbr />/AdNauseam</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozilla Firefox">Mozilla Firefox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/GPLv3" class="mw-redirect" title="GPLv3">GPLv3</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://adnauseam.io">adnauseam<wbr />.io</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>AdNauseam</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open-source">free and open-source</a> web <a href="/wiki/Browser_extension" title="Browser extension">browser extension</a> that <a href="/wiki/Ad_blocker" class="mw-redirect" title="Ad blocker">blocks Internet ads</a> while <a href="/wiki/Auto_clicker" title="Auto clicker">automatically simulating clicks</a> on them.<sup id="cite_ref-Thompson_Nov_2015_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thompson_Nov_2015-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Created in 2014 by Daniel Howe, <a href="/wiki/Helen_Nissenbaum" title="Helen Nissenbaum">Helen Nissenbaum</a>, and Mushon Zer-Aviv,<sup id="cite_ref-GitHub_readme_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GitHub_readme-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Defer_Apr_2022_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Defer_Apr_2022-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the software is a <a href="/wiki/Digital_rights" title="Digital rights">digital rights</a> advocacy project that <a href="/wiki/Countersurveillance" title="Countersurveillance">counters surveillance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Profiling_(information_science)" title="Profiling (information science)">data profiling</a> employed by online <a href="/wiki/Advertising_network" title="Advertising network">advertising networks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Thompson_Nov_2015_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thompson_Nov_2015-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The extension functions on <a href="/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozilla Firefox">Mozilla Firefox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Powles_Dec_2024_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powles_Dec_2024-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> banned AdNauseam from the <a href="/wiki/Chrome_Web_Store" title="Chrome Web Store">Chrome Web Store</a> in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-Pangburn_Apr_2017_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pangburn_Apr_2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/MIT_Technology_Review" title="MIT Technology Review">MIT Technology Review</a></i> tested AdNauseam's effectiveness with Nissenbaum in a 2021 experiment, during which Google recognized most of AdNauseam's automated ad clicks as legitimate and billed a <a href="/wiki/Google_Ads" title="Google Ads">Google Ads</a> test account accordingly.<sup id="cite_ref-McGuigan_Jan_2021_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGuigan_Jan_2021-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AdNauseam&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prior to AdNauseam, co-creators Daniel Howe and <a href="/wiki/Helen_Nissenbaum" title="Helen Nissenbaum">Helen Nissenbaum</a> released another extension, TrackMeNot, that masked the user's <a href="/wiki/Web_queries" class="mw-redirect" title="Web queries">web queries</a> by sending unrelated queries to search engines.<sup id="cite_ref-Dale_Jul_2016_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dale_Jul_2016-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nissenbaum, a professor at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>, published her book <i>Obfuscation</i> to explain how irrelevant data can be used to preserve user privacy.<sup id="cite_ref-Faife_Jan_2017_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Faife_Jan_2017-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, according to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, AdNauseam designer Mushon Zer-Aviv referred to the extension as "more art project than mass-rollout tech".<sup id="cite_ref-Powles_Dec_2024_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powles_Dec_2024-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Howe released version 2.0 of the extension in July 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth" title="Hackers on Planet Earth">Hackers on Planet Earth</a> conference.<sup id="cite_ref-Dale_Jul_2016_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dale_Jul_2016-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Version 3.0 became available in November 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-Dale_Jan_2017_10-0" class="reference"><a 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When questioned by <i><a href="/wiki/Fast_Company" title="Fast Company">Fast Company</a></i>, Google denied that AdNauseam's ad-clicking functionality triggered the ban, instead claiming that AdNauseam was removed for simultaneously blocking and concealing ads—a behavior exhibited by other extensions that Google continued to allow on the platform. AdNauseam had 60,000 users at the time of the ban, and was the first ad blocking extension designed for <a href="/wiki/Desktop_computers" class="mw-redirect" title="Desktop computers">desktop computers</a> that was banned from the Chrome Web Store.<sup id="cite_ref-Pangburn_Apr_2017_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pangburn_Apr_2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Users were initially able to bypass the ban by installing the extension in <a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a>'s developer mode,<sup id="cite_ref-Dale_Jan_2017_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dale_Jan_2017-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Google subsequently marked AdNauseam as <a href="/wiki/Malware" title="Malware">malware</a> to prevent this workaround.<sup id="cite_ref-Claburn_Jan_2017_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Claburn_Jan_2017-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Zer-Aviv had previously anticipated the possibility of Google removing the extension<sup id="cite_ref-Powles_Dec_2024_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powles_Dec_2024-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and believed that the company did so to safeguard its use of advertising as an income source. <i>Fast Company</i> expected a competing <a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome#Malware_blocking_and_ad_blocking" title="Google Chrome">ad blocker to be built into Chrome</a> that would adhere to criteria published in March 2024 by the Coalition For Better Ads – an industry group that Google co-founded – that evaluated visual appeal instead of privacy considerations.<sup id="cite_ref-Pangburn_Apr_2017_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pangburn_Apr_2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Functionality">Functionality</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AdNauseam&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Functionality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>AdNauseam blocks and repeatedly sends click <a href="/wiki/Event_(computing)" title="Event (computing)">events</a> to all ads served by <a href="/wiki/Web_domain" class="mw-redirect" title="Web domain">web domains</a> that ignore the user's <a href="/wiki/Do_Not_Track" title="Do Not Track">Do Not Track</a> preference.<sup id="cite_ref-Pangburn_Apr_2017_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pangburn_Apr_2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBC_Radio_Apr_2018_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBC_Radio_Apr_2018-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When it sends click events, AdNauseam introduces incorrect information about the user's preferences into <a href="/wiki/Web_tracking" title="Web tracking">web tracking</a> systems used for <a href="/wiki/Targeted_advertising" title="Targeted advertising">targeted advertising</a>, thereby impeding ad companies from <a href="/wiki/Profiling_(information_science)" title="Profiling (information science)">profiling</a> the user.<sup id="cite_ref-Faife_Jan_2017_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Faife_Jan_2017-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Defer_Apr_2022_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Defer_Apr_2022-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The auto-clicking behavior additionally forces advertisers who <a href="/wiki/Pay_per_click" class="mw-redirect" title="Pay per click">pay per click</a> to incur financial costs.<sup id="cite_ref-CBC_Radio_Apr_2018_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBC_Radio_Apr_2018-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The extension is initially configured to click on all eligible ads, and the user can change the proportion of ads it clicks on.<sup id="cite_ref-McGuigan_Jan_2021_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGuigan_Jan_2021-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> AdNauseam's ad blocking feature is derived from the <a href="/wiki/UBlock" class="mw-redirect" title="UBlock">uBlock</a> extension.<sup id="cite_ref-Claburn_Jan_2017_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Claburn_Jan_2017-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a January 2021 experiment conducted in collaboration with Nissenbaum using test accounts on the <a href="/wiki/Google_Ads" title="Google Ads">Google Ads</a> and <a href="/wiki/Google_AdSense" title="Google AdSense">Google AdSense</a> platforms, <i><a href="/wiki/MIT_Technology_Review" title="MIT Technology Review">MIT Technology Review</a></i> confirmed that AdNauseam's automatic clicks of Google's ads on a test website accumulated expenses for a Google Ads advertiser account and revenue for an AdSense publisher account. Google processed transactions for ads clicked by AdNauseam on browsers operated by human users and on three of four browsers automated with the <a href="/wiki/Selenium_(software)" title="Selenium (software)">Selenium</a> toolkit. The experiment ultimately gained $100 of income for the AdSense account, which <i>MIT Technology Review</i> interpreted as evidence of AdNauseam's efficacy.<sup id="cite_ref-McGuigan_Jan_2021_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGuigan_Jan_2021-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=AdNauseam&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> representative Alan Toner described AdNauseam as "a piece of <a href="/wiki/Agitprop" title="Agitprop">agitprop</a> theater" intended to "creatively protest the surveillance mechanism behind advertising".<sup id="cite_ref-Pangburn_Apr_2017_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pangburn_Apr_2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a <i>MediaPost</i> opinion piece, <a href="/wiki/Fox_Networks_Group" title="Fox Networks Group">Fox Networks Group</a> advertising executive Joe Marchese remarked that "AdNauseam aims to screw with the ad industry in ways that just using an ad blocker doesn't", and opined that the extension, "while obviously hostile to our industry, is extremely smart". Marchese believed that the advertising industry could use AdNauseam to raise awareness of <a href="/wiki/Ad_fraud" title="Ad fraud">ad fraud</a> conducted by "layers of middlemen and shady ad networks".<sup id="cite_ref-Marchese_Oct_2014_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marchese_Oct_2014-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sean Blanchfield, CEO of anti-adblock consulting firm PageFair, expressed concern that when AdNauseam is used, "advertisers will not be able to distinguish it from deliberate <a href="/wiki/Click_fraud" title="Click fraud">click fraud</a>" and that "if it gains popularity with technical users, its only achievement will be to destroy the businesses that run its users' favorite websites". 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