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How about clicks from browsers that have this plugin installed are just not counted? That sounds simple enough.

>>ryanhu+(OP)
They could certainly do that in this case, but they are probably trying to send a strong message to would-be developers of similar extensions. One is a nuissance; a thousand would be much more difficult to chase down and block.

Also, if these developers really wanted to, they could distribute it directly from their site and dynamically generate the extension, packaged with a unique identifier, for each download. This would make it effectively unblockable. So simply identifying an install of this specific extension is not a solution.

>>ryanhu+(OP)
How can they tell if the browser has this plugin installed?

>>icebra+2a
Let's make AdN a thing like privoxy, where it runs on the network and does all of this outside of a browser, and for all clients on the network.