> I worked in adtech a few years ago, and AdNauseam-style click fraud is a relatively trivial to detect and ignore. It does nothing, and adtech companies don't care about your hate of online advertising the least because that's what brings in the cash.
Then other user clarified [1]:
> The most usual technique is to setup click baits/traps, once you click on a trap link you (= IP or UID via cookie) are added to an ignore list, where all your actions are not invoiced to advertisers. Simple and works,
With all that in mind I came up with an idea at a time [2]:
> What would happen if there would be a popular extension that would share UID cookies between all its users?
Now, the question is: is it worthwhile to do something like this?
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19279384