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I think that such strategy with data poisoning will not be effective because based on current data your activity will be marked as anomaly and will not go into
by aiven 9y ago
I think that such strategy with data poisoning will not be effective because based on current data your activity will be marked as anomaly and will not go into any dataset. So this strategy is the same as doing nothing.
But I agree that it's pointless to delete visible data about yourself, because statistics are already stored somewhere else and you don't have power over it.
- Karunamon 9y agoNow there's a business idea.. have an app running on your phone and PC that watches your "normal" facebook activity to establish a baseline, and ever so slightly perverts it over time using the same connection so the IP/location information still lines up. Slowly and methodically so the information doesn't get flagged as bogus. Start with overtly partisan political stuff since that's the easiest to classify. Call it Social Chaff as a Service (SCaaS).
- antsar 9y agoI wouldn't say its pointless. What if someone gains access to your account through social or technical means? Sure Facebook/NSA/etc have a copy, but at least Customs agents, hackers, and crooks wielding a rubber hose can't access it.
- pelario 9y agoI have been fantasizing as a combination of data poisoning and intervention when the poisoning is actually real: make groups to swap profiles for a while. Without even going back to the original, but just jumping to the next one. As long as you agree through a different medium and swap credentials with someone you somehow trust, it should work.
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- mygo 9y agowhy go through all that? who would go through all that? making your own life more difficult in spite of a company? it's not sustainable note: I know that some people actually would. but philosophically speaking I just don't get it, it's almost like its missing some kind of deeper point.
- soziawa 9y agoWhy not build a browser plugin that visits 5 random websites for each site you visit.
- monocasa 9y agoI feel like you could pull a 'natural flow' subset out.
- zrobotics 9y agohttps://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/ There you go. Not on the chrome extensions store, but works on chrome (according to their site, I can only vouch for Firefox). I had this question a while ago, and debated building my own, but laziness won out. Edit: I'm an idiot, didn't read that you specified random websites. Adnauseam just clicks on random ads to pollute marketing data.
- jsemrau 9y agoWhy are these people not creating spaceships, exploring the deep of the oceans, or curing cancer?
- periya 9y agoThere is no advertising money in those fields.
- Bartweiss 9y ago> based on current data It might well be useless to start today with your existing accounts. But it's a principle worth knowing about nonetheless. It's certainly possible to poison data from the beginning of your contact with a service - especially for ones less pervasive than Facebook. An account that never sees entirely true data may not be able to build up an accurate profile. Having said that, providing false information does violate the ToS for most sites. Which probably isn't a federal crime, given US v Lori Drew, but it's certainly not a good idea for an account you can't afford to have suspended.
- outworlder 9y ago> I think that such strategy with data poisoning will not be effective because based on current data your activity will be marked as anomaly and will not go into any dataset. So this strategy is the same as doing nothing. You give them too much credit. This would require some PLM being concerned with such activity enough to add the anomaly detection. Unless they are way proactive over theoretical issues.