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How do I poison my data (read body) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I want to poison as much of my online data as I can, and I know that companies can get it anyway if I delete it, but if I were to spam sheer volume, it would cost more than it’s worth to try and sort it.

Dad uses windows and the main device I use is his laptop, and I understand that Microsoft scrapes everything they can. He’s going to reset his laptop soon, so all the junk is erased, but would it be possible to temporarily poison most data on there (from ms perspective) until it’s reset?

Would it be possible to do that on other things too, say corporate owned software, social media, etc?

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[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For M$ no clue, for browsing,
AdNauseam comes to mind.

It's a fork of uBlock Origin,
which instead of blocking all the ads,
hides all the ads + clicks on them all in the background, which:

Costs advertisers a lot of money
Poisens your data profile, since they can't make up your actual interests anymore

It's more protest-ware then privacy-ware though,
since you'll be overflooding them with bs data,
instead of minimizing the data collected.

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

On the flip side, this makes a ton of money for ad platforms.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...and I'd like to add, if they are showing ads relevant to the website you are on, you are clicking those ads and thus giving away what interests you really have.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

combine it with TrackMeNot and you can stop worrying about this

[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh thanks! It wont let me upload to chrome, but it's probably user error. I'll figure it out

[–] PaddleMaster@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because Chrome blocked ad blocking extensions.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Not really. Chrome specifically made it hard to install adNauseam, as it threatens their business model. This predates the extension API changes

[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

It should still be possible to manually upload in dev mode?