Put simply, AdNauseam is designed to click ads with the explicit goal of scrambling data and costing advertisers money.
The AdNauseam extension is a free download available for Firefox and Opera and is used by an estimated 216,400 people. Although this sounds like a relative drop in the ocean in terms of internet users, we’ll soon see why this is an issue.
Previously the AdNauseam extension was available for Google’s Chrome browser, but it has been removed from the Chrome Store – for obvious reasons.
However, AdNauseam is still available for Chrome users who want to download and install it themselves (as seen in the image above).
And when we consider that the average user is exposed to hundreds of display ads each day, a lot of money is obviously lost to the invalid clicks generated by the AdNauseam extension.