Brainstorm: how to design a user-agent to maximally sabotage/destroy adtech if it achieves widespread use.
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Replying to @RichFelker
Concept only: every time it successfully detects an ad it (1) hides it, and (2) saturates bandwidth downloading it over and over again.
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Replying to @gnomon
I was thinking fake clicks, but doing it intelligently to destroy ability to charge/pay per click.
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Replying to @RichFelker @gnomon
Something like an intentional botnet of millions of users, not trying to get anyone paid but rather break the whole system...
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Replying to @RichFelker @gnomon
..by randomizing who gets paid and who has to pay, all with no returns.
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Replying to @RichFelker @gnomon
Especially chumboxes could be vulnerable to this kind of attack.
7:39 PM - 27 Oct 2017
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