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Doesn't opting out cause a Streisand Effect?[1]. I mean, if you go out of your way to hide something it makes you even more interesting and you stand out. My ow

Doesn't opting out cause a Streisand Effect?[1]. I mean, if you go out of your way to hide something it makes you even more interesting and you stand out. My own strategy for not having data collected on me is to compartmentalize and have various contextual identities across different services and never cross contaminate identities and never have all my personal info in one centralized location that makes it easier for the likes of Acxiom Corporation to profile me. I call it identity 'sharding'. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

soared 8y ago
Your strategy doesn't work, FYI. If you have /ever/ used the same device or network they are linked. If you've ever used a credit card across your 'shards', if you've ever logged into a service (especially gmail/fb) accross 'shards' then your identities are linked. You'd need entirely separate devices, networks, names, browsing habits, social accounts, etc. You might've lowered their confidence, but that has nearly zero effect. Cross-device graphs are exceptionally advanced.. all the machine learning/etc that gets discussed on hn is used to beat users like you. Oracle is one of many vendors who do this. https://blogs.oracle.com/oracledatacloud/crosswise-questions-answered https://blogs.oracle.com/oracledatacloud/crosswise-questions... https://go.oracle.com/LP=57841 https://go.oracle.com/LP=57841