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It is significant that Google has chosen to ban this addon, and leave quiet the other ones, which themselves lead to an loss of revenue on the short and long run, and a loss proportional to the number of users whatever this number is (so no threshold in that case).
Well, I don't know which is worse for advertisers. With a regular blocker, at least they know the advertisements were blocked and not loaded. Here, they know they loaded, but not if they were seen and ignored by a real person, seen and ignored by the addon, clicked by a real person or clicked by the addon.
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The (well though in my opinion) metaphor of counterfeit money you use is interesting too: Counterfeit money is money not issued by the authority in charge of this production (central banks, and even regular banks). In the case of web adds, this authority is nothing else than each user. And with AdNauseam activated, this authority remains the user. Simply he delegates his money emission's right to an addon, ie to a bunch of code, and suddenly this emission becomes fake money.
Then, suppose an user has access to an IA (which is only a bunch of code too), and suppose the user trains it in order this bunch of code behaves like an human (possibly like him, possibly exactly like him). If the user delegates the clicking activity to this IA, will these clicks still be fake money?
This illustrates in my opinion that what is trading in this business is not clicks. It's our mind, our attention, our identity, our desires (and maybe our soul).
It's the automation that makes this "wrong", in my opinion. You're supposed to only click on stuff that interests you in some way, that's the expected behavior. No one clicks on