



By now many of us have seen the above image. Well we’re going to take it a bit further and earn some gift cards and possibly even plant some trees. All from the browser.

The extensions you’re going to need.

AdNausem

TrackMeNot

Microsoft Rewards

First, when installing AdNausem disable µBlock Origins and µBlock extra if you have them installed. They will have conflicts with AdNausem. If you’re using a different adblocker disable that and consider uninstalling if you haven’t done any research on them. They might not be trustworthy. I have no idea if AdNausem will have conflicts with µBlock Matrix.

Second, install TrackMeNot. You’ll have to keep an eye on the icon to see if it his the error mode. I suggest setting the Query rate to 30 per hour so Microsoft doesn’t flag you for suspicious activity. If you use the option to search in an open tab you can have conflicts with other extensions like Grammarly.

Third, install the Microsoft Rewards extension. If you don’t already have a Hotmail/Microsoft account you’ll need to sign up and then log in through the app. This way you’ll earn gift cards.

Fourth, now we’re going to help plant some trees with Ecosia. At this point in time we’ll have to add this search to TrackMeNot. In the “Options” click the wide button with the + on it located under the search engine list of names. Here are the two pieces of information to paste into the specific boxes.

Ecosia – https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=trackmenot

If you’re asking what the point of doing all this is. That’s simple, this is just one more way to mess with Google. To hopefully take them down a peg. Since Google has zero qualms in playing dirty with other companies. The added bonuses are you can earn some gift cards and help plant some tress in the process.

Links if you want them:

Ecosia’s official website: https://www.ecosia.org/

AdNauseam’s official website with installation instructions: https://adnauseam.io/

The link to their page on github for those wanting the source: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam