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[–] washington_irving@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It seems like a good idea at first glance but it's actually useless amd may potentially be harmful. The "developer" proudly advertises browser finger fingerprint spoofing as one of the features and also recommends using it alongside a vpn, which means that if there is no lower level surveilance the traffic won't poison your advertiser profile, it will just be a literal random noise, on the other hand if there is os-level surveilance (as is the case for stock android) it will ignore this random noise. Either way it's useless and the only outcome it acheives is making you solve captchas every time you want to actually use google, because you get flagged as a bot. But that's just technicals, the actual issue is that it's actually just an ai slop, which becomes obvious looking at the readme file, also the "dev" admitted to using ai (which is still underplaying it's role) on github. So if you are serious about privacy and safety the first step to take would be to not install random slop on your device and give it your credentials (as is necessary for some of it's "functionalities")

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"every time you want to actually use google"

i think you're lost, buddy.

lol

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Some are locked into their services through work

Try being a land survey professional without using Google Earth.

I get it, but not everyone can free themselves of using their systems because they are tied professionally

[–] washington_irving@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

well, if the point is to "poison google's data collection" by obfuscating your real traffic with random noise then I'd assume you still want to use google