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If your data (or at least data about you) is everywhere, there's only one thing left to do. You'll have to engage in a misinformation campaign about yourself. S
by Lowkeyloki 8y ago
If your data (or at least data about you) is everywhere, there's only one thing left to do. You'll have to engage in a misinformation campaign about yourself. Send advertisers so much conflicting information about yourself that they can't distinguish the signal from the noise. That way they won't be able to target you.
This may sound ludicrous, but there actually is a browser plugin out there (I don't have a link handy, unfortunately) that confounds meaningful tracking efforts by clicking on each and every ad on every page you view. The pages the ads link to aren't actually displayed to you.
Like I said, it's a crazy tactic but it makes perfect sense. Overwhelm them with data.
Google strongly opposes it, by the way. So it must be on the right track.
- InternetUser 8y agoI think it can be gone quite a lot more simply: Register on each service with a different first and last name and birthdate, linked to a throwaway email address with its own different name and birthdate. Then register on another service with another, and so on. I'm a white American guy, yet because I've watched some Spanish pop videos and used Google Translate for Spanish translations (and done other things, not as part of a concerted mis/disinformation campaign), my Android phone believes I'm a Latin woman, and I even get a mixture of Spanish and English ads and pre-roll commercials on YouTube videos, and some of the ads are for women's clothing and makeup.