AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users
As someone who's been interested in tracker defeating since that became a thing around 25 years ago, I'm just a little concerned that something like this AdNauseum -- if ever adopted significantly -- could invite blowback that also hits more conventional tracker blocking, or other current liberties.<p>Not making certain HTTP requests seems to be protected right now.  However, click fraud, with which this might be conflated, seems to be a very different matter.<p>Imagine this being used to justify hamfisted legal restrictions on how everyone's browsers may behave.  Or used as a reason or pretext to effectively force even more invasive user identity requirements or device attestation.  (Which, history suggests, will then be abused for more nefarious and societally dangerous purposes.)