Like many of you, I am annoyed that ads follow me. I was wondering if anybody wants to build a browser plugin that automatically clicks on all ads in all pages that I visit. (or is there such a thing already out there).
The idea here is to create noise on the advertisers side, and prevent them from having any evidence/insight into what I really like and don't like.
Of course this does not work on Google/facebook and others with whom I voluntarily share my preferences (by using their products, search, social ...). But I am not very worried about them personally anyway. I am more annoyed by these other advertisers with whom I don't have any direct relationship (I don't use their free products) and they are also being very dumb about it. Like I once looked at product page (a year ago) and now everywhere I go I see ads for that damn thing.In summary, anybody wants to feed noise to dumb advertisers. This makes them smarter (or the smarter ones will survive) which makes our experience better (don't know if it makes our lives better, but that is a tall order anyway).
I don't have time to do it myself, but will be happy to help if needed.
EDIT:
I really don't want to use an ad blocker, because I want to support content producers who rely on ads (like youtubers ....).