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.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.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.)