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>the AdNauseam (.io, browser extension) approach to pollute their tracking data might be inspirational. The gist is: can't eliminate ad links? Then have an app "click" all of them randomly so that counters become irrelevant. So there is this link that identifies user X?, well then write an extension that distributes and "clicks" it around on say 1000 other machines in a p2p way so that it becomes meaningless.
Except if you look at the documentation for AdNauseam, their fake click technique seems trivially filterable. The fake clicks are made as XHR requests, so all you have to do is look at the appropriate headers to filter them out. At best the only adtech companies that are getting fooled by this are upstarts that haven't added fraud detection yet.
https://github.com/dhowe/adnauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause...
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