FAQ questions [website]

[dhowe]

• Does AdNauseam's automatic ad clicking creates billable events for advertisers?
• How does what the AdNauseam's clicking differ from click fraud?
• Do you oppose all advertising or only advertising you believe is abusive (e.g., tracking)?
• What must advertisers do to win the trust of Internet users?
• Are you concerned that ad-blocking technology is part of the reason companies like Facebook are so keen to deploy "native advertising" -- ads that masquerade as editorial content?
• Others?

[mushon]

• What made you choose data obfuscation as the strategy here?
• This is interesting, do you know of other similar obfuscation initiatives along these lines?
• Where should I go to read more about obfuscation, ad networks and digital privacy?
• Do you give a talks? Run workshops? Do magic tricks?
• Are you also tracking my clicks on your own servers?
• Would AdNauseam slow my browser?
• more?

[stuartyeates]

• Does AdNauseam interact with my social media timelines in ways noticeable to my social media connections?

[dhowe]

Some responses to include in the FAQ (mostly from @hfn1)

We do not oppose online advertising. We are bringing to light a system of advertising that has taken hold of the Net, whereby ads are just the tip of the iceberg and serve as a delivery system for a massive back-end surveillance architecture that tracks each one of us. To reiterate, it is not advertising we are protesting, but advertising insofar as it represents a dominant means of tracking.

We understand what click fraud is and do not believe we are engaging in it (nor do the lawyers we have consulted). Turning the tables, we would like to hear why someone holds that AdNauseam does commit click fraud. Would they say the same of anyone who clicks on an ad in which they are not really interested?

We can't answer for Facebook's decisions to insert advertising material inadvertently into other content, Media companies have utilized this approach before and will likely continue to attempt to influence and trick individuals into paying attention with new techniques, once resistance to previous methods has developed. In print media, some governments have found the practice sufficiently unethical to require publishers to distinguish clearly advertising from editorial content.

AdNauseam and systems like it are a means for users to communicated our protest directly, unmediated by the vested interests that claim to speak on our behalf, or claim to guess our preferences and predilections.

[mushon]

:+1:

[mushon]

@hfn1 would you please edit these answers and other ones into the FAQ page?

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ/_edit

(we're already publicly teased about it)

Thanks!

[dhowe]

Indeed, we certainly need this pre-launch...

[dhowe]

First version done and linked from addon. This will continue on of course, but I'm closing it for now as an issue...