Ad nauseam is "weirdly" banned from the chrome store. Guess it hurts them :)
Can’t you sideload applications like a hacker?
Our computing landscape has deteriorated if installing an application/extension outside of a walled garden makes you a "hacker."
depends how high the walls are I guess. One other way to look at it is, if 99% of users cannot do it, then it's a hack =) aka users have becomed dumbed down by walled garden...
I believe the comment was facetious.
Especially, because it clicks ads without you seeing them
That is a neat idea, going to give it a try.
I'll give a warning with that, the traffic generated by adnausem starts to get cloudflare suspicious and then you end up having 1/2 of the internet made inaccessible because Cloudflare decided at some point you are a bad actor and you're pretty much hosed from that point on.
Good thing I get my internet access from a major internet service provider that stuck me behind a carrier-grade NAT!
The city of Palo Alto's website is "protected" by some cloudflare clone wannabe. It somehow decided that my residential ip address (also in Palo Alto) is a threat and I can't access any city website now. Just get an infinite loop of "are you human?" challenges.
My workaround is to use Tor. That sails right through.
Excellent job. My tax dollars at work.
How does Ad nauseum solve this? It seems you failed to understand this technical issue. Ad nauseam is build on uBlock and suffers from the same issues does it not? I have not looked into it, but it seems it's a technical limitation that lets connections go through b4 an extension is fully loaded and hooked in to be able to block them. So just by my common sense, a fork of UBO would suffer from the same issue.