Anmeldelser af AdNauseam
AdNauseam af Daniel Howe
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- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Felix, 7 måneder sidenStarted working again! Overall this addon is a 10/10, does what it advertises and does it well!
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Kritesh Niroula, 7 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af jcdenton, 8 måneder sidenAwesome extension. Google doesn't want you to use it because they want to track you!
- Bedømt til 4 ud af 5af TT, 8 måneder sidenIt's honestly a 4-star addon, but I'm temporarily setting this to one star to get the dev's attention. Read on, and you'll see why:
It works great (for now,)and I realize it's Recommended by Mozilla, but I wanted to warn people about Google's increasingly weird TOS, and specifically, this addon's seemingly dangerous interactions with it.
When you allow this addon to run in the background, it clicks on "all ads" or "some ads," which for some reason causes Google to flag your account as "may be under 18." (Maybe it auto-clicked on a Polly Pocket ad? I dunno.)
The ambiguous wording here is, I suppose, by design. They're not accusing you of BEING underage, they're just saying maybe you are, maybe you aren't.
Of course, the only way to find out your account has been flagged in this way is to click the [+] button in the corner of an ad that Google knows darned well has nothing to do with your Recommended videos. Which means the only way you'll even become aware of it this phenomenon in the first place is by running Ad Nauseam, then turning it off again.
(Intriguingly, if you had Safe-Search turned off before you installed the plugin, becoming "maybe under 18" disables the Safe Mode button in a way that literally makes it impossible for you to enable it again. Is Google seriously trying to say that they both think you may be under 18, *and* that they're deliberately going to force you to see NSFW search results???)
The fact that the [+] only shows on ads that are drastically different from your Recommendeds shows that Google already knows exactly what it is doing, here. They're serving incongruous ads on purpose. The question is why?
It's unknown what Google's goals or long-term plan are, but combined with various other clauses in Google's TOS, this "may be under 18" phrase has some unfortunate implications:
The worst-case scenario I can imagine is, Google bans you, (that is, the user, the person, not the account,) from all of their platforms simultaneously, and also flags you in a database as some sort of child molester, ostensibly because you were over 18 when they served you your search results, but under 18 when you viewed them, and by clicking on the search results, you, an adult, were distributing NSFW content to yourself, a minor. And WEI rollout means they *might* have just enough information to track you as you move from account to account, so they could make it stick.
I doubt they'd have a legitimate legal case against anyone, since you literally can't be two ages at once. But if the goal is just to separate the internet into technological haves and have-nots, this is one excuse they could use to make sure anyone running AdNauseam ends up as a have-not, all the while telling regulators that the metrics say they banned a bunch of pedros.
That's just one of the baffling interpretations of the faux-legalease in these TOS that treats each user as a quantum superposition of their browsing behavior, rather than as a person.
(That said, they can also ban any user they want for "not being profitable enough." They added that gem in 2019. Which you'd think would be good enough to let them do away with all accounts that use ad-blockers, across the board, so I'm not sure what the goal of this stealth ad semi-shadowban is.)
I'd say "stay safe out there," but with the FBI demanding that literally everybody run an ad blocker, I'm not even sure I know what "safe" means anymore.
Not a complaint, just an observation. I would add one star if this situation could somehow be addressed by the addon. (But of course, it can't. That's the point.)
I'll set it back to 4 stars if the dev responds. He seems to take one-star reviews very seriously if past behavior is any indication. (Sorry for the inconvenience, Daniel. For what it's worth, I really like the use of negative space on your website.)
Also, apparently, for the guy above me, KOLJAAAA, it auto-clicked on Malware. Yikes! I wonder if Google is also doing THAT on purpose.Svar fra udvikleren
skrevet 7 måneder sidenHey TT, thank you for your extensive review, we had never come accross such an issue before, could you share with us some more info regarding it on the issue ticket I just created on our github page: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/issues/2439
We are discussing some possible implementation that can help deal with such unwanted ad visits here as well, feel free to share your opinion: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/issues/2440 - Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18105368, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18105299, 8 måneder sidenTHIS IS HOW WE DEFEAT THEM WITHOUT HURTING ANYONE!!! HUZZAH!!!
- Bedømt til 1 ud af 5af JohnnyFrust, 8 måneder sidenForced dark theme. Light should always be the default as its a standard and easier on the eyes for most people. Dark should be optional if included. Edit: I wouldn't bother with this if using Firefox. You have to disable to many privacy features in order for it to work. At that point, it defeats the primary purpose of using Firefox.
Svar fra udvikleren
skrevet 7 måneder sidenDear JohnnyFrust, we have now implemented a light-theme on latest release, be sure to update. You will find the option for light theme on "color blind friendly" option. - Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Arin, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Yoksven, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 17029985, 8 måneder sidenWasting advertisers' money while making the profile they're building on me meaningless.
The best kind of adblock. - Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Odin, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 17136287, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Halfmedia, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 4 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18089883, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 4 ud af 5af Guitarman0512, 8 måneder sidenWorks great! Youtube adblocker detection is not being blocked however...
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Ivy Tellers, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 15544790, 8 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 1 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18072679, 8 måneder sidenIt worked great until a few days ago and now I might as well not even have it enabled.
Svar fra udvikleren
skrevet 8 måneder sidenHello, thank you for letting us know, but since the last version 3.18.0 this has been fixed already. - Bedømt til 3 ud af 5af Cinda, 9 måneder sidenUsually this add-on works like a charm, but in the past few days it's stopped blocking search engine and YouTube ads. It's so invasive that I'm switching to another blocker for the time being.
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skrevet 8 måneder sidenHello Cinda, sorry for this issue, indeed this was an issue we identified and it has now been fixed on latest version 3.18.0. - Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af WallCrouton, 9 måneder sidenHas worked great for months but now some YouTube ads get through, which I've never experienced with any adblocker. Might need an update.
UPDATE: Changed my rating from 4 to 5 now that it's fixed. Thanks for keeping up with it.Svar fra udvikleren
skrevet 8 måneder sidenHello WallCrouton, yes we made an update on latest version 3.18.0 youtube ads are now being blocked again. - Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 13623010, 9 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Jazztache, 9 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 4 ud af 5af iidsch, 9 måneder siden
- Bedømt til 4 ud af 5af GG, 10 måneder sidenSeems great so far, but it doesn't block ads on Spotify web player. uBlock would block them, but it told me not to run both of them at the same time.
- Bedømt til 5 ud af 5af Firefox-bruger 18005841, 10 måneder siden