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 ....).
The other problem is that modern ad networks these days are pretty complicated beasts very much like stock exchanges where publishers and marketers come together to bid on the ability to serve ads on specific pages and to specific users. This means a lot of these networks gather and segment information by IP addresses and browser fingerprints. Those pieces of information are much harder to mask and you need to start using anonymizing proxies if you want to hide that information as well.
So the bottom line is that all these tools already exist and they are much better at masking information than clicking on every ad possible.