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i've considered the psychology of our position.

the difficult part is getting someone to understand that they have been vastly overpaying -- that means they must call into question their own (past) judgment, which for some people is easy, but for most people, is extremely hard (mild cognitive dissonance).

i find it especially interesting that the question is coming from a small private school, who's business model is basically the same thing. i.e. offering a superior alternative to larger, better funded incumbent institutions.
It seems that AdNauseum clicks on the ads then hides them, whereas normal extensions simply block them.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that.
A policy of not "Interfering with Apps, Third-party Ads, or Device Functionality" in the Chrome Store sounds like it'd outrule every adblocker.

The description of that rule also doesn't seem to apply: "Ads associated with your app must not interfere with other apps, ads, or the operation of the device, including system or device buttons and ports." It's specifically under the ads section of the policy.

I'm not sure the policy applies in any way to Chrome either: "...ensure that together we continue to deliver the world's most innovative and trusted apps to over a billion people through Google Play." EDIT: The link has been changed and now points to the equivalent Chrome Store policy. My other 2 points remain true though.
If I had known this was coming (and I specifically asked), I would not have spent the thousands of dollars necessary to get out to Seattle and take the tracked device training course. They had to have known this was coming a mere month and a half ago.

I am not happy.
It's pretty simple: this has to be wreaking havoc with Adsense - depleting ad budgets, artificially inflating CTRs, and giving website owners revenue they didn't earn. This extension also exposes website owners to unfair Adsense bans for generating high numbers of invalid clicks, which can cost them two months of revenue that is almost always withheld when Google bans a site. So by using this you could be costing someone (your favorite blogger etc.) their livelihood.

If you are going to block ads, block them. Don't click on them.
Not all dictators are inherently evil either, but because of the state into which a dictatorial ecosystem inevitably declines, we don't want them either.
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The new silk road is a decent project, but of course it's not purely for China to dump it's products abroad. Besides, I believe it's a matter of time before anti-China sentiment in Europe will be like the American-version propagated by Trump.
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I use Chrome, but I don't exclusively rely on it. I always have both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox installed on my systems/devices.
If he is in good health, he is almost certainly right to think this...
Please report back in 20 years from now. :)
I run two SaaS analytics services on my own, https://www.improvely.com and https://www.w3counter.com. Improvely is 4 years old, W3Counter is 12 years old, and together they earn $45-50K/month.
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That sounds very interesting. Could you go into more depth what techniques you exactly used?
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The advertiser may choose a partner and run it with the ad, or they may choose a partner and require the publishers produce reports from that partner. Some advertisers will simply require some notable anti-fraud vendor, and the publisher is free to choose the cheapest/least effective.
I think it's more complicated than that. I often feel beaten and defeated. That doesn't stop me from being a life long learner. I'm sure there are people who are perfectly content with their lives and they just don't feel the need to learn new things.
This is a cool project. I'm mostly a designer, but am familiar with PhantomJS.

I don't see a blog on your site. Have you considered writing about the technology? I'd think search would be a great growth mechanism for something like this. Certainly there are a ton of people searching for questions related to Phantom. I'd look around Stack Overflow and possibly Quora for topic ideas and then write posts answering those questions.
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"ride a bus" and "go to school" are not usually the equivalent of "eating at a restaurant" or "working for a company"- in many countries, bus systems and schools are often provided by the government, with tax payer subsidies- and bus systems are often officially monopolies. A Libertarian/Classical Liberal could easily argue that discrimination in such services should be illegal, and that while unethical and deplorable, discrimination by a private individual or business should not be illegal.
Not me. If some quack who went to a six month "doctor bootcamp" can remove the abscessed tooth that would otherwise kill me, I'd hand him the pliers and beg for help.

Because there's a need, and that need is vital.
So why are these still listed? uBlock, uBlock Origin, TruBlock, AdBlock Plus, etc
I have now! :D
Are there even any jurisdictions left that employ AD's that aren't at least EMT-B's? I know here in NC there used to be a separate "Ambulance Driver" certification apart from EMT-B, but I'm not even sure that exists anymore. From what I remember, most of the providers here - even the all volunteer squads - run at least at the EMT-I/ALS level.
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It takes extraordinary privilege to even conceive of the idea of privilege. Everyone else just lives their lives.

These words do nothing to encourage reflection or elicit any of the questions you're now asking; they just trivially dismiss the parent.

Edit to add:

I'm not discussing privilege. I'm arguing that your comment says nothing about whether or not a concept is valid because some people aren't aware of it or concerned about it.

Anyway, I recognize this is now well off-topic and likely fruitless. I apologize for the noise.
Yup, basically an distributed attack on their ad networks. Hopefully they'll also release a Mozilla Firefox add-on.
Great site! Would love to know what sources you are crawling for displaying the articles, or is it all admin generated?
Fair criticism, clumsy post on my part
Of course this could happen. This plugin automates clicking ads on a page, which does directly violate exactly what that section of the TOU is saying.
Hmm, I recall the tour differently - they said the building has no hvac, instead they just open/close the doors.
In my experience having any other type of people is generally more expensive because you are wasting higher level people on actively managing lower value tasks to get done.
China is a manufacturing economy, while the US is an information economy. This makes two way trade difficult because China wants control of information. It's hard to put up a tariff on Chinese products but it's easy to introduce information controls that cripple American business models.
Seems very similar to blockdiag[0] which works well with Sphinx documentation.

[0]: http://blockdiag.com/en/index.html
I can't name a single online service that is supported by ads and that I couldn't live without.

>not all ads are inherently evil.

All advertising is manipulation. Advertisers are bad and should feel bad.
Actually, the equivalent of bootcamps does exist in the medical realm.

For example, a dentist can take a six-week course on breast augmentations, and then perform boob jobs on the side. There are many "cosmetic surgeons" out there who are dentists, ENTs, and general practitioners, who have no formal training in plastic surgery. That's why it is important to look for a board certified plastic surgeon, rather than a board certified dentist who does plastic surgery.
Well, if it is not an ad, at least is some astroturfing, how come the BIG photo is not that of the actual guy?

The image on the article is this one:

https://i2.wp.com/tobecomeateacher.org/wp-content/uploads/20...

"Stock photo" by Jake Barford:
https://unsplash.com/@jakebarford

The photo of Mr. Vaughn, (from his "profile"):

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/100/100/1*Lu4bKAqf2Sxm...
Hey man, I think your discussion points finally reached the real reason why "single use policy" applies differently for Office Online than it does to AdNauseum. AdNauseam team are intelligent and they probably realize it as well. In their self-description:

> AdNauseam, a not-for-profit, research-based privacy tool, hides and clicks every tracking ad that it identifies in order to resist the opaque collection, analysis and monetization of private user data, and to challenge the intrusive and unethical business model that currently dominates the web.

Ital. gives you the justification Google could use to block the product. "Disrupting Ad Networks" is the single purpose, but while "Ad Blockers" are a simple nuisance to Ad Networks and 3rd party revenue streams, "Ad Obfuscators" poses a threat to affiliate marketers and resellers who may interact through Google's channels.

(In my opinion.....) Is AdNauseum justified in their work? ABSOLUTELY YES. But there are other hands at play. This also explains why Google is working so hard to block updating or new installs of it.
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My first thought when I read the name was that it only needs the 1st letter changed to take on a whole new meaning as a heterosexist slur. Then I saw you were in the UK too, and wondered if you've also noticed this or it's just me?!
Well, sure, it's an oversimplification. But I think it's a pretty valid one. It's not just about learning new things (you don't even need to learn to be on the winning side - I know artists who are driven to create, who have already refined their technique and are focused on creativity now).
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Let's try this again. As a language C is not that horrible and it doesn't have to be as sloppy and as insecure as it is in popular compilers. In fact, I believe 99% of the C code is not performance critical and can benefit from simple runtime checks to ensure memory safety. Not that much needed to "save us from C". But ultimately no one cares, inventing and playing with new languages is way more fun.
Those just block ads, do not cause mess in Googles data. Lack of data is better than unpredictable and fake data.
In the end there are huge range of causes that all impact these statistics.

For example, the rise of video games which may be a stronger explanation. One way to test this is if their are dips in violence around the release of GTA or other ultra popular games. With the method of action simply being fewer human interactions.

That said, the indirect evidence is even low levels of environmental lead contamination are significant over a population. Which suggests other things may cause similar issues without people noticing. EX: mad as a hatter
They're just recruiting based on specific search terms. It's not your search data or related to your browser. If you find a search term that pops up the recruiting message, you can send it to your friends and they'll be able to get it to appear as well.

It's pretty pointless anyways.
"what do I like doing?" -> "what is the most I can achieve doing that while keep doing what I want?" -> do it

Important to remember that the answers can change as we grow up and learn new things or situations change. Just because something made you happy yesterday it doesn't mean it will make you happy if suddenly the rest of the world around you shifted. It's a constant pursuit of happiness for me and adapting to new circumstances is key.
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It appears that AdNauseam is based on uBlock Origin. So giving the extra middle finger to advertisers does not mean giving up on first class ad blocking capabilities.
The current hypothesis is that it is similar to bacterial antibiotic escape. Effectively the cells are growing rapidly and acquire mutations. This is why you want to treat with combination chemotherapy. However, there are some big issues. First, we only test drugs in isolation and then sometimes they will try two together after a long long time. This is how leukemia achieved high remission rates back back in the wild wild west days. Today there is a focus on targeted chemotherapies and then of course the holy grail of immunotherapy. I hope we figure out how to program the immune system to great effect. That and viral targeting therapies that use crisper. But these are early days and progress cannot come fast enough.
Programming then was very different and historical gender segregation in jobs, preceding the development of programming, led to the very earliest programming teams to be assembled from clerical workers which were at the time largely women.

By the time I started programming, 50 years ago, the field had shifted. In one class I took, in a large lecture hall at MIT there was only one female student. In that same lecture hall the organic chemistry lectures were very roughly 50% women.
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>Tesla...available in early 2017.

One claim versus another, both optimistic. I'm not going to believe Audi or Tesla until I see it.
GWT is very different because it directly 'transpiles' Java to a high-level Javascript, you basically get the worst of both worlds ;) asm.js and WebAssembly are much lower level, they are generated from LLVM bitcode, theoretically any language that can be compiled through LLVM can be used with asm.js / WebAssembly (as long as the language runtime libraries are ported to run in a browser environment).
The only problem with Flattr is that it doesn't work.

Other than that it's great.

I mean this both straight and a bit sarcastically. I'm ideologically inclined to want to see it work. But it doesn't, it hasn't, and I see little reason to expect that to change in the future. Patreon doesn't work perfectly, and perhaps there's an even better model waiting for someone to find it, but it does work.

It does strike me as the sort of thing that would be a decent VC candidate. It is plausible to me that Flattr's core problem is an activation-energy one. But I can't run that experiment myself.
Were there really enough people using this to cause such an impact?
I started with around $15k, but that's nothing compared to what I've dumped into the business since then. If I knew then what I know now, I'm not sure I would have started this.

I have not written about it, yet.
I definitely have some OCD tendencies.
Word of advice: name your .js file after its versioning (or use ?v=x.y.z in the src), because some updates break older code.

I had to go through all the versions at one point to make my old code work again, because I'd used a remote CDN or something at one point.

Excellent tool otherwise, haven't seen anything better so far.
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I've been reading about drop-shipping for quite time and it seems definitely achievable. One thing I'm not sure is how do you handle returns? What is someone wants to return the product back to you? Do you send it back to China or just take the lost? How do you handle the costs for shipping etc?
Well, who do you think your customers are?

Publishers want someone to handle monetisation of their website. If they get enough traffic, they want that someone to work in-house, but if they don't, they want some one (ad network) to do it for them.

Advertisers want impressions/clicks/performance.

A (successful) ad network needs to do both, so bootstrapping invariably looks something like matchmaking in the very beginning.

If you want to find my email address and reach out, I'm happy to talk to you more about bootstrapping: I've gotten more than one ad network off the ground.
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I was just trying to guess their underlying reason.

I can see, however, a view that "not loading" an ad doesn't qualify as "interfering" with it...but clicking on it for the purpose of disruption is considered "interfering".

Also, I updated the link to point at chrome extension policy vs app store policy. The wording is similar.
Restart your browser and you will see the extension is no longer installed. This is deliberate on the part of Chrome (Firefox does this too) - It is to prevent malicious extensions from using the developer mode as a backdoor to install themselves.

On each restart, you will need to re-add the extension from source.
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That's the way to go. They're just prescription glasses which are optimized for the working distance of a computer screen (or whatever your workplace happens to be).

You measure your working distance at your desk, take the number with you to the optometrist, and they'll dial-in a prescription that works best for that distance.

Anti-glare coating helps too.
Google HAS to block this and prevent it from ever being run if it can, its click fraud plain and simple and they've been stung too many times with huge bills for fraud it could have prevented and didn't.
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I agree, programming is easier to learn than so many other things because of the short feedback loop, the available resources, and the willingness of those who are experienced to talk about what they've learned.
Citing privilege is passive dismissal. It says this person because of X should be heard less.
You might be interested to learn that for shortcuts, Rightclick->Properties->Shortcut Tab->Advanced has an option to "Run as administrator".
Even worse, an attacker can broadcast a spoofed deauth packet so that it looks like it's coming from your router. Most consumer wifi equipment will deauth and then immediately reconnect, allowing the attacker to capture the '4-way handshake' for offline cracking. For some reason I thought AES-256 was somehow part of WPA2, but not 100% sure.

It's also interesting how much information your personal wireless devices give out. If you use a program like airodump, you'll usually see at least one or two client devices with a long ESSID probe list from various restaurants, coffee shops etc.

Incidentally, this is how I came to realise how google use wifi to 'improve location accuracy' (although technically I think it's resolution time): their mapping vans would have catalogued router mac addresses/BSSIDs and bound them to locations. So google know that if someone's phone can 'see' a certain router, they must be within 100m or so of <location>. So a GPS fix can happen much quicker...

As for how practical it is to crack a WPA2 passphrase: by far the best protection is a totally random password (one that wasn't supplied by the manufacturer). Once you get up to a 10-12 character password (that's totally random), cracking it will take an infeasibly long time. If you're interested, you should check out some of the conversation of the hashcat forums. Some of the folks there use a number of very sophisticated ways of 'shrinking the search space', like statistical analysis of big password DB dumps. It turns out most people use passwords like 'Camero87' or 'Mystreetname1987'...

Oh, and disable WPS.
I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't want to be a favorite site of even one AdNauseum user. Adsense is very sensitive to stuff like this, especially in higher CPC niches.
> The page you have tried to view (A look at darktable 2.2.0) is currently available to LWN subscribers only.
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My 4 year old ipad is barely usable on even basic pages now because of all the js bullshit.
On the other hand, the Saturn V launch system operated for about a week or two each, whereas these submarines should last around 30 years in service.
Your decryption/encryption secret (key) is stored on the server side only and if a client requests a thumbnail, you can validate the URL value by successfully decrypting it with this secret and probably do a simple HTTP URL validation check of the decrypted value.
And you have to encrypt all thumbnail URLs with this secret before passing them to the client.
They have it: https://adnauseam.io/
Just started http://libretaxi.org - uber alternative for communities and remote regions.

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Installed AdNauseam on Firefox as soon as I heard. Never heard of this extension before, now I'll use it!
I am going to study Cray's Chapel [1]. I'm a cosmologist and regularly have to write/use codes that run on clusters. In the past years I have tested many different languages to substitute C/C++/Fortran for HPC development: Ocaml, Nim, Ada, and Julia. I must say that so far Julia has proven to be the best choice by far. However, I miss the C/C++/Fortran compilation phase, which spots missing parameters, mismatched types and other errors which Julia catches at runtime. Chapel might provide the best of two worlds: static compilation like C, and numerical-oriented features, like Julia.

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As a brother who lost a sister to juvenile brain cancer as well, I have been searching for methods of helping the folks working on the problem. Outside of brain tumor non-profit foundations, have you found other channels to help? I am even thinking leaving ad-tech to work in bio-tech.
I ran into something like this when a discussion board I ran attracted the wrong users and ended up having to close it down.

I would fight this hard, zero tolerance. Your policy should be "we know it when we see it, immediate removal, and it's not open for discussion". Don't try to come up with rules etc., because that will just open you up to infinite discussion. One things trolls are good at is sucking up your time.

In your shoes, I would be very though and never discuss your decisions. (aka we removed you, not going to discuss it.) NEVER EVER get into discussion with the 3%.
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> The title might be necessary, because it's not always visible in the screenshot.

That was my first assumption but I am now tempted to say you should fully invest in your concept. Drive a complete behaviour change from choosing stories based on the title to choosing stories based on the actual content, its design and being able to skim the first few paragraphs which lets you judge writing quality and intent more than a title.

If the title isn't visible on the page, so what? It clearly wasn't important to the designer. The focus on titles is perhaps a weakness of HN, not a strength. This means you should be delighted to get rid of the title and anything else that becomes an obstruction to skimming real content presented as the designer intended.
Then why doesn't Google find some terms or change their terms or policy that clearly indicates why they are taking down the extension? It doesn't make sense to mislead the extension developers by giving them a nonsense reason for taking it down. Obviously, they believe the extension is destructive. So, they should use that as their rationale in taking it down.
This is pretty cool. The realtime refresh is a nice touch.

It would be helpful to link back to the stories on HN so one can comment.

Added to my list of HN clients: https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/
Admirable as a life example, not sure that starting coding at 56 guarantees higher ROI and market than sql/excel for data analysis though?
It's probably still cheaper energy-wise to clean those polluted rivers first.

I agree at some point we must start thinking about reusing agriculture water¹. But doing that when there's a perfectly good river nearby that you don't want to use just because it's polluted seems premature.

1 - Does it imply in vertical? And what would be the impact of not throwing that water at the atmosphere anymore?