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Helen Nissenbaum, Daniel C. Howe & Mushon Zer-Aviv

AdNauseam

2017 – present

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AdNauseam joins a broader class of technical systems that attempt to serve ethical, political, and expressive ends. In light of the industry's failure to self-regulate or otherwise address the excesses of network tracking, AdNauseam allows individual users to take matters into their own hands, fighting back against unilateral surveillance. Taken in this light, the software follows an approach similar to that of TrackMeNot, employing obfuscation as a strategy to shift the balance of power between the trackers and the tracked. It works to complete the cycle by automating ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
Take me to 'Engineering Privacy and Protest: a Case Study of AdNauseam' Paper by Helen Nissenbaum, Daniel C. Howe
Tell me more: https://adnauseam.io/
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  • Ellie Ga
  • Yishay Garbasz
  • Bjarni Gunnarsson
  • Matthew Angelo Harrison
  • Camille Henrot
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  • Tzu Nyen Ho
  • Cat Hope
  • Daniel C Howe
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  • Marina Hulzenga
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  • Eduardo Kac
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  • Teresa Margolles
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  • Devon Ward
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  • The Yes Men
  • Mushon Zer-Aviv
  • Ioanat Zurr
  • Bas Jan Ader
  • Memo Akten
  • Jane Alexander
  • Mark Amerika
  • Sadie Barnette
  • Æsa Björk
  • Zach Blas
  • Blast Theory
  • Mel Bochner
  • Andrej Boleslavský
  • George Brecht
  • John Cage
  • Cassils
  • Micha Cárdenas
  • Jon Cates
  • Oron Catts
  • Jake & Dinos Chapman
  • Yasuhiro Chida
  • Paolo Cirio
  • Critical Zoologists
  • Marcus Coates
  • Critical Zoologists
  • Debbie Ding
  • Hasan Elahi
  • Harun Farocki
  • Ken Friedman
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  • Snow Yunxue Fu
  • Ellie Ga
  • Yishay Garbasz
  • Bjarni Gunnarsson
  • Matthew Angelo Harrison
  • Camille Henrot
  • Lyn Hershman Leeson
  • Roger Hiorns
  • Thomas Hirschhorn
  • Tzu Nyen Ho
  • Cat Hope
  • Daniel C Howe
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  • Pierre Huyghe
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