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Ad nauseum seems to do the job well. Ads are clicked and not displayed. So YouTube is happy I guess.

Actually from the advertisers' point of view this could be worse than blocking ads, as it makes profiling worthless.

Yes, that is the entire point of the project, and the name.

Disclaimer: I don't know what tech ad nauseam used, never used it.

Now, isn't it dangerous running ads and clicking on them from a security point of view? Can these ads exploit some vulnerability and pwn your computer? I would prefer never to run ads and not risk some infection.

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...

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