GitHub - dhowe/AdNauseam: AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance

README.md

Install AdNauseam for Firefox, Opera or Chrome

AdNauseam is a lightweight browser extension that blends software tool and artware intervention to actively fight back against tracking by advertising networks. AdNauseam works like an ad-blocker (it is built atop uBlock Origin) to silently simulate clicks on each blocked ad, confusing trackers as to one's real interests. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and enable bulk surveillance.

We conceptualize AdNauseam as a software system that serves ethical, political, and expressive ends. In light of the industry's failure to address the excesses of network tracking, AdNauseam allows individual users to take matters into their own hands, offering active defense against surveillance, profiling and potential discrimination. The software thus represents a similar approach to that of TrackMeNot, relocating power in the hands of individual users, rather than vast commercial entities. For further information on this approach, please see this paper.

About the project

• Web Site: https://adnauseam.io
• Authors: Daniel C. Howe, Helen Nissenbaum and Mushon Zer-Aviv
• Developers: Daniel C. Howe and Sally Chen
• License: GPLv3 (see included LICENSE.txt file for full license)
• Github Repo: https://github.com/dhowe/adnauseam/
• Bug Tracker: https://github.com/dhowe/adnauseam/issues
• FAQ: https://github.com/dhowe/adnauseam/wiki/FAQ

Can I contribute?

Absolutely! We are looking for coders, designers, and translators to help on the project.

If you are a coder or designer, just press Fork at the top of this github page and get started... Or, if you'd like to contribute a translation, please visit this page.

If you're not sure where to start, look at the issues labeled HELP US CODE. Thanks!

How to install the development environment

1. Fork and clone this repository:

   $ git clone https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam.git

2. How to build the extension for various browsers

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