Fauxx is an open-source Android privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.
Not my project, but though this is really cool and worth sharing.
Fauxx Data poisoning for your everyday tracking
https://github.com/digital-grease/fauxx
8 Comments
fargeol@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 96d
Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/1105/
ulterno@programming.dev · 2 pts · 95d
Just here to say, there is an even better way to embed an xkcd in Lemmy Markdown.
This will not only make the image into a link but also give the much required hover text.
Like so...
Feel free to make a Python (or sth) snippet that creates the link for you.
PokerChips@programming.dev · 3 pts · 95d
The former is easier to read.
ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 91d
If you are talking about the picture being easier to read, then that's a renderer thing and is better off being fixed.
If you are talking about the code being easier to read, yes. The line I made has a 3 features vs the 1 feature in 1 line of the former, so it is to be expected. And that's why I don't expect people to make it themselves (although I do make it manually).
fargeol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 95d
Nice!
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 3 pts · 97d
The question is whether or not the people selling this data can still profit off of it or not. Otherwise, you're not really disrupting the system, you're just misaligning your own advertisements.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 11 pts · 97d
Ads are the least of things to be concerned with really. Job prospects, insurance adjustments, credit decisions, all kinds of things get bundled up with the kind of data profiles that get built.
RonSijm@programming.dev · 1 pts · 96d
Cool. I think trackmenot https://www.trackmenot.io/ does something similar, just in browsers