Why-you-should-avoid-Google-AMP VS AdNauseam

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages): AMP is an open-source initiative by Google that aims to make mobile pages load faster. By implementing AMP, you can create mobile-friendly web pages that load almost instantly.

sigh... guessing you were on mobile and it was just easier but since I consider AMP to shit, for anyone else who wants it, here is the normal non-AMP link:

(AMP itself is just an open source web framework. For example, all Axios pages actually use AMP.)

The link you have submitted is an AMP link These have be criticised by many people for a variety of reasons. In view of that we encourage users to not use AMP links for submissions but instead to use the actual URL linked to publishers site. If you are on a mobile device and don't know how to get the proper URL consider trying to disable Google Search and you should be furnished with actual links to real websites and not googles referred links.

It's an annoying AMP-link, never link those.

The exception is Redirect AMP To HTML, which does just that. (AMP has various organisational and technical issues; bypassing it also makes page links shorter when quoted).

Automatically redirects AMP links to their normal counterparts

It does not actually clicks on the ads. It sends the request to ad server but does not execute any response from the server, so it's safe to run

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause...

>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause...

>AdNauseam 'clicks' Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions the is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a 'click' on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads. Although it is completely safe, AdNauseam's clicking behaviour can be de-activated in the settings panel.

Isn't this easily detectable? XHRs are easily detectable through various headers, so it's trivial to filter out the fake traffic from this extension. Failing that, thanks to ad fraud there's a whole industry of bot/ad fraud detection firms using browser fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to detect fake ad clicks. I have no doubt that an extension that's "clicking" on every ad using XHR is going to get detected and filtered.

I'd think it's infeasible for advertisers to regularly audit third-party apps on reddit's behalf to make sure the ads they're paying to display aren't being requested but cosmetically hidden or even shadow-clicked. I'm sincerely curious if there are any example platforms that do this with their API; I can't find anything after a search.

What is your opinion on AdNauseam?

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Other than that, Libredirect and AdNauseam to be pretty neat. Allows me to avoid using certain sites directly and when I do, I mess with their ads engagement enough. A bit petty, but I'll take what I can get.