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If you're worried about getting in trouble for some HTTPS or DNS traffic then why would you trust this? Someone snooping on your traffic could see you generatin

If you're worried about getting in trouble for some HTTPS or DNS traffic then why would you trust this? Someone snooping on your traffic could see you generating traffic that looks incriminating. If you're not worried about getting in trouble for some HTTPS or DNS traffic then why would you use this? In short I don't understand the use case for this script. Anyone analyzing your traffic looking for specific DNS requests or specific SNIs will still see them.

redwards510 8y ago
As the author mentions in the readme, one use case is to obfuscate your online advertising profile by flooding it with random data.
- endymi0n 8y ago
  Without using a real headless browser running JavaScript AND accessing a browser cookie store to distribute the fake traffic on the event tracking of all gazillion tracking cookies you‘re already identified with, this approach is utterly useless for the purpose intended. Even for trackers using IP+Fingerprint (which nobody I know is seriously using these days anymore), you‘d have to spoof the user agent of the regular browser. Sorry to say, but you‘ll be much better off with an adblocker.
  - ryan-c 8y ago
    I think this is intended to screw with tracking being done by your ISP.
    - jlg23 8y ago
      Your ISP has more options to identify you than a random 3rd party advertisement/tracking partner...
trolleyhacker 8y ago
Read up on China and VPNs. A lot of providers and individual are now using obfuscation techniques to circumvent the Great Firewall.
- badrabbit 8y ago
  +1 they do protocol detection as well. If blocking is all they want,fingerprintig is cheaper than DPI.
DyslexicAtheist 8y ago
there are interesting application scenarios for noise-generation¹ and can be a valid OpSec strategy depending on the purpose of the operation. It isn't a catch-all or even substitute for any other mechanism (adblockers, pi-hole etc) and can have side-effects. __ ¹https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/ https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-...

redwards510 8y ago

As the author mentions in the readme, one use case is to obfuscate your online advertising profile by flooding it with random data.

endymi0n 8y ago
Without using a real headless browser running JavaScript AND accessing a browser cookie store to distribute the fake traffic on the event tracking of all gazillion tracking cookies you‘re already identified with, this approach is utterly useless for the purpose intended. Even for trackers using IP+Fingerprint (which nobody I know is seriously using these days anymore), you‘d have to spoof the user agent of the regular browser. Sorry to say, but you‘ll be much better off with an adblocker.
- ryan-c 8y ago
  I think this is intended to screw with tracking being done by your ISP.
  - jlg23 8y ago
    Your ISP has more options to identify you than a random 3rd party advertisement/tracking partner...

trolleyhacker 8y ago

Read up on China and VPNs. A lot of providers and individual are now using obfuscation techniques to circumvent the Great Firewall.

badrabbit 8y ago
+1 they do protocol detection as well. If blocking is all they want,fingerprintig is cheaper than DPI.

DyslexicAtheist 8y ago

there are interesting application scenarios for noise-generation¹ and can be a valid OpSec strategy depending on the purpose of the operation. It isn't a catch-all or even substitute for any other mechanism (adblockers, pi-hole etc) and can have side-effects. __ ¹https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/ https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-...