Yeah, I do think it's very difficult to build a profile of a user that automatically clear cookies when closing a tab and often change IP. I'm not saying it's impossible, but certainly difficult. And it would become even more difficult if we encouraged everybody to take steps to protect their privacy rather than dismiss efforts as useless.
This extension doesn't change my IP nor does it auto clear cookies, but are we not allowed to combine multiple tools? I use VPNs (both my own and from work), I often change location (home, office, hotels, cafes, etc.), have several phones/laptops that use different operating systems/browsers. At the office everybody use the same computer model, are you going to blacklist 50+ peoples potential ad clicks from that IP because I use AdNauseam?
I don't think the data scientists at Facebook/Google/others are bad at their job because of their likely inability to invalidate all AdNauseam clicks, nor do I think the addon, with its current userbase, has the slightest impact on their money printing machine.
> Yeah, I do think it's very difficult to build a profile of a user that automatically clear cookies when closing a tab and often change IP
Your browser leaks a lot more information than just cookies and IP.... canvas fingerprinting for example is particularly pernicious. Check this [1] for a demo of the known leaks (there are probably more that aren't in this project yet)
That's true, besides NoScript then it's difficult to deal with canvas fingerprinting.. I do follow/use most of the settings/addons recommended at https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/
In any case then I still think the goal should be to recommend AdNauseam to as many people as possible, because it does work against most ad networks, especially when it's accompanied by extensions such as Privacy Badger that will block a lot of tracking domains.
Even the most sceptic users (with regard to AdNauseam's ability to hurt user tracking ad networks) will still benefit from using AdNauseam as an alternative to uBlock Origin, because uBlock Origin is still running under-the-hood. There's nothing to lose and a lot to gain, especially when we in the future figure out how to defeat canvas fingerprinting without disabling JavaScript.
Does this extension change your IP?
How bad at their job do you think these data scientists are, to make companies like Facebook and Google such great money printing machines?