Assume Android.

While countries like Brazil, Mexico, and India have privacy laws on paper, enforcement is weak, allowing both domestic and foreign vendors to deploy invasive technologies unchecked.

So they’re doing just as well as the US?

One could say it’s their fiduciary duty.

Man, the US has a handwriting problem. It sucks sooo much. In other countries it seems to be only doctors, but in the US? Fucking everyone.

It’s good that they’re using it to screen for it then.

It’s like the blood pressure screening you get every time you go to the doctor. It can’t detect hypertension on its own, but can point you to the necessity for a test for it.

I imagine the end goal would be a machine that you put your fingers in and gives a chance of anemia present. That could be a screening for a proper anemia diagnosis.

Is not the first time I’ve seen a good technical post from them.

With most fixed residential users having their modems on 24/7, there’s more incentive to simply keep renewing the lease. Why would you risk potential service disruption to your clients?

I don’t know about NZ (or wherever you are), but IP addresses for residential access in the US don’t really change all that much. It’s… concerning.

You do have a point, but… It’s not for nothing. It’s to hurt the predatory ad industry. And what you give up isn’t much: your IP address and likely the referral (so they know you visited website X that was serving their ad). It’s up to you to decide whether that’s an acceptable privacy cost to conduct this kind of guerilla ad warfare.

It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don’t think it’s possible, though.

edit: Just found out from their FAQ:

Does AdNauseam respect the browser’s private-browsing/incognito modes?
Yes, AdNauseam does not collect or click Ads that occur on pages loaded in private-browsing or incognito windows, unless manually enabled by the user.