AdNauseam

open-source privacy browser extension

AdNauseam

Industry Open Source

An open-source browser extension built on uBlock Origin that blocks ads and can automatically click blocked ads to obfuscate tracking profiles. AdNauseam scores very well because it gives users a direct privacy-protest tool against ad surveillance, though its click-obfuscation strategy is intentionally adversarial and not a general creator-funding solution.

Why this matters: AdNauseam is one of the clearest anti-surveillance advertising tools: it changes the power relation between trackers and tracked users rather than merely asking adtech to behave better.

Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 62* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material53
Bonus+9
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap62
Penalties0
b
Small business context

This entry is classified as a small business using observable scale signals: independent control, local or limited operations, and no evidence of public-company or national-chain scale. The small-business calibration keeps the ordinary rubric but reads evidence at person scale: living-wage pricing is not extraction by itself, while worker and contractor treatment, owner surplus, transparency, advertising pressure, dissent tolerance, and recourse matter more. Harm, toxicity, surveillance, labor, coercion, opacity, and hidden-parent penalties are not relaxed.

Applied cap: No structure cap

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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Ownership; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Ownership8/10
  • Extraction8/10
  • Governance7/10

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims10
  • Direct axis claims10
  • Coverage10/13

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
8 / 10

AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
7 / 10

AdNauseam's linked public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
4 / 7

AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
5 / 7

AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
?
Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
2 / 3

AdNauseam publicly challenges dominant advertising or tracking practices, creating room for criticism of the existing attention economy.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • AdNauseam publicly challenges dominant advertising or tracking practices, creating room for criticism of the existing attention economy. [7]
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
3 / 3

AdNauseam's public work supports privacy, user autonomy, speech, or information-integrity norms beyond bare legal compliance.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • AdNauseam's public work supports privacy, user autonomy, speech, or information-integrity norms beyond bare legal compliance. [8]
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
2 / 3

AdNauseam gives users, creators, or participating organizations a more legible or fairer value proposition than ordinary opaque advertising markets.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • AdNauseam gives users, creators, or participating organizations a more legible or fairer value proposition than ordinary opaque advertising markets. [9]
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
2 / 3

AdNauseam's public materials make parts of the advertising, reward, pledge, or creator-payment exchange more visible than conventional adtech.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • AdNauseam's public materials make parts of the advertising, reward, pledge, or creator-payment exchange more visible than conventional adtech. [10]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 77/100

10 verified linked claims 10 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 10/13 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 20/20

10 verified linked claims

Source quality 11/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

10 direct claims across 13 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 8/10

10/13 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Company responseCompany representatives can submit source-backed corrections; payment never changes scores or reviewer authority.

Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1AdNauseam is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2AdNauseam's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction.

Governance Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3AdNauseam's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising.

Extraction Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

4AdNauseam operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

5AdNauseam's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

6AdNauseam's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

7AdNauseam publicly challenges dominant advertising or tracking practices, creating room for criticism of the existing attention economy.

Openness To Dissent Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8AdNauseam's public work supports privacy, user autonomy, speech, or information-integrity norms beyond bare legal compliance.

Constitutional Spirit Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9AdNauseam gives users, creators, or participating organizations a more legible or fairer value proposition than ordinary opaque advertising markets.

Good Deal Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

10AdNauseam's public materials make parts of the advertising, reward, pledge, or creator-payment exchange more visible than conventional adtech.

Cost Transparency Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

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