"We are attempting to bring to light a system that has taken over the web, whereby ads are just the tip of the iceberg and serve as a delivery system for a massive back-end surveillance architecture that tracks us from site to site," the trio explain on the project's Github repository. In an unusual move , Google has removed ad - blocking and privacy extension for AdNauseam from the Chrome Web Store , and flagged it as malware so it can not be installed in developer mode . In 2013 , Google removed ad - blocking for all apps in the Google Play store , for violating its prohibition on interfering with other apps . The team behind AdNauseam has added another version of the software to the Chrome Web Store , in the hope that it proves more acceptable .
In an unusual move , Google has removed ad - blocking and privacy extension for AdNauseam from the Chrome Web Store , and flagged it as malware so it can not be installed in developer mode . In 2013 , Google removed ad - blocking for all apps in the Google Play store , for violating its prohibition on interfering with other apps . The team behind AdNauseam has added another version of the software to the Chrome Web Store , in the hope that it proves more acceptable .