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Sometimes I click lots of ads deliberately to mess up the malgorithm, especially I click ads that are of no interest to me...What I never do is buy anything on
by jimnotgym 8y ago
Sometimes I click lots of ads deliberately to mess up the malgorithm, especially I click ads that are of no interest to me...What I never do is buy anything on the click through.
- charlesism 8y ago+1 for teaching me the neologism 'malgorithm'
- jimnotgym 8y agoThanks to 'Private Eye' magazine
- chillacy 8y agoPresumably why sophisticated advertisers track purchase completions through the pixel and then run ads with a goal of conversion instead of clicks.
- Aromasin 8y agoThere's a Firefox extension I often used before installing Pi-Hole that would do exactly this on every page. It was called AdNausium. Not sure if it's still a thing, but it was pretty great at obfuscation. By the end of using it I'm pretty sure Google thought I was a middle-aged woman with an obsession for patterned summer dresses. There were a few other ways I obfuscated data using this guide :- https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwinaward.com/post/improve-your-privacy-in-age-of-mass-surveillance/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwin...