Tool lets you confuse Google’s ad network, and a test shows it works

I do feel like Google would absolutely permaban you for doing something to deliberately sabotage their profit model.

Firefox now by default opens Facebook and Instagram in separate walled "container" tabs. Perhaps you could do the same thing with Google services? Would they be able to track by IP/user agent fingerprinting though?

I've been running ad nauseum for years and have never had a problem with Google.

I do get some funny ad suggestions though.

Yes. Same here. Google's gotten some bad press lately for banning people without stating a reason-- yes, there's legal rationale for not giving a reason. But, I'd suggest it's also likely that nobody at Google actually knows the reason. There's not some single common and obvious thread in the bannings (aka customer "segmentation"). Speculating, it's really just your risk/segmentation score from algorithm X is vector Y. And, I'd imagine AdNauseam increases your score in the bad direction.

Perhaps it could click a random one (plus or minus one) at lower time intervals? That would be much harder to detect and filter out. I mean: it's not such a big deal to filter out quick strings of ad clicks.

Ah, I see that's an option already. Interesting.

Since I just deleted my Google account, I'd be more than happy to risk a ban.

You can use Reader Mode to read it in full (used Safari, but should work on anything else too).

A paywall and a notice that they are deliberately ignoring GDPR and sharing data without consent.