Advertising automatic clicking extension "AdNauseam" is blocked by web browser "Pale Moon"

ByAntoni BCN

Firefox's clone browser "Pale Moon", And click on the advertisement of the displayed page automaticallyAdNauseamOpinions are being sent back from the users about blocking.

AdNauseam extension blocked - Pale Moon forum
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=16504


"Pale Moon" is a web browser that Moonchild Production has independently optimized forking (branching) from Firefox. Because the original is Firefox, it is also a great merit that you can use extensions for Firefox as they are.

With that Firefox, with "Firefox 57" scheduled to be released in November 2017, the available extensionsWebExtensionsIt was limited to those developed in the previous version, developed by the technology before WebExtensionsYou will not be able to use legacy extensions. In response to this, some people thought about the transition from Firefox to Pale Moon squirted out, "Pne Moon" AdNauseam "blocking measures.

"AdNauseam" is "Extension to Web Advertisement", but unlike extensions that block ads based on filters, it is an extension to make sure that all ads in the displayed page are automatically clicked. This is aimed at making user tracking of web advertisements meaningless, and it is stated on the official website "counterattack by individual users against unilateral monitoring". It is provided for Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, but it was deleted from the Chrome Web Store in January 2017.

AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Do not Have To
https://adnauseam.io/


According to Moonchild, developer of Pale Moon, clicks by AdNauseam were fake clicks and were thought to be a kind of "malware" that could directly cause damage including third parties, so add to the block list He said that he decided. If you want to use AdNauseam, you need to edit about: config and raise the blocking level to 3.

On the other hand, from the user, the opinion that "AdNauseam is not malware, but deciding to use / not use it is a user until Aja, it is not something that the development side should block" was raised. Mr. Moonchild does not oppose the "ad block" itself, but rather seems to understand the user's desire for such extensions, but I am planning to withdraw the policy of Block by saying that the behavior of AdNauseam can not be overlooked It does not seem.