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An ad blocker, but it doesn't just block the ad, it engages with it based on your defined parameters. You get a blacklist/whitelist setup, so you can list businesses and topics you want to support and businesses you don't. Now every aldi ad that I don't actually see gets a bot version of my engagement to convince advertisers that I'm into that, but every Nestlé ad gets reported for abuse with links to their many, many crimes. All the while, it looks like I'm engaging with the advertising like a good little consumer without ever having to waste my own time.
The environment is genuinely a give and take, and I wonder what part of the adpocolype is caused by garbage data due to ad blocking. Instead, we opt out. Instead of digging through our trash and spying in our movements we just give them an itemized list and tell them to fuck off.
Something similar exists, which just clicks all blocked ads: https://adnauseam.io/
That's close, but the goal is to black ball shitty businesses so that, with enough users, you can efficiently shift market data to hurt companies. It's going to cause a lot of red flags to go up if all of a sudden people are turning adblockers on specifically for nestle ads before engaging with all the others normally.
Thanks for this. Do you know Fauxx for Android?
Jusr installed that last week, can't say if it does anything but it has numbers on it.
I've looked at it on F-Droid before, but I don't actually use AdNauseam myself either, so haven't tried it. 😅
Or even better. An ad block that would cost them money and make me some.
Kinda like having an 0800 number that when someone spams me I make the difference.