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Well this is amazing!

I honestly think if a majority of people start using this, Click Fraud will eventual become indistinguishable from clicks made my AdNauseam and ad companies for once will worry about milking the ad-cow.

But then... I know this will die in someway or the other.

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If there was actually a significant percentage of browsers that had this installed then it would ultimately affect the actual business model of ad sales. It would be really interesting to see what they could possibly come up with if CPC was no longer usable.

This won't have the push as ad-blockers, it doesn't have explicit benefits on the user side while sabotage the publishers. So it will be very hard to sell.

Another weak point is that it does end up loading the ads which would slow down the connection and it confirms the pages you've seen to the networks increasing the amount of tracking done.

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