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[–] [email protected] 106 points 10 months ago (25 children)

Is there a similar tool that will "poison" my personal tracked data? Like, I know I'm going to be tracked and have a profile built on me by nearly everywhere online. Is there a tool that I can use to muddy that profile so it doesn't know if I'm a trans Brazilian pet store owner, a Nigerian bowling alley systems engineer, or a Beverly Hills sanitation worker who moonlights as a practice subject for budding proctologists?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The browser addon "AdNauseum" can help with that, although it's not a complete solution.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That and trackmenot.

It searches random shit in the background.

https://www.trackmenot.io/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That looks useful for these wanting to track MS rewards points...

...if you can get them, that is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You’ll get the ban hammer.

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