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ISP junk generator (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there something that can generate random Internet usage to make the real sites I go to a bit obfuscated?

I'm thinking something that runs on my server, and simply visits a random website. It probably shouldn't actually be random, and some sort of tweaking would be great. Like the ability to have it visit every news site there is. That way the ISP will have a harder time telling my political bias.

The threat model for this is below using a VPN for normal usage, although getting a dedicated VPN IP address is a project for one day.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you want both https://adnauseam.io/ and https://trackmenot.io/

I know with tailscale you can set Mullvad as the exit point for all clients within a subset. I imagine you can do something similar with a private VPN, with a ton more effort.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Very similar yes. Trackmenot but for any site not just search engines. Although it may be a good option too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If you're on a VPN then the thousand other people using that server provide that type of obfuscation.

What you seem to want is a web crawler that is perceived to be a real human and navigates alternate sites in real time. That's a near-impossible cat and mouse game. Ultimately not worth the effort. All you have to do is be harder to track than the majority. The value for ad tech is in efficiently profiling the 99% — not the 1% of paranoid folk.