Yeah they didn't mention the stated purpose of AdNauseam, which is explicitly hostile to ad networks and advertisers.
EDIT: From their paper:
"The second goal is to provide a means of proactive engagement, allowing users an avenue for expression of their dissatisfaction with current advertising mechanisms to those in control of such systems. In the case of AdNauseam, this expression has an interventional aspect, as the software actively attempts to disrupt the economic model that drives advertising surveillance"
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf
