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I wonder if, at this point, it isnt easier to write a service that floods all these companies with random made up telemetry. MS/HP/FAANG wants data? Lets bury
by hyperman1 7y ago
I wonder if, at this point, it isnt easier to write a service that floods all these companies with random made up telemetry. MS/HP/FAANG wants data? Lets bury them in it. We train some AI so it isn't obviously wrong. We start anti tracking lists like the spam blacklists. We se d GDPR requests to find out what sticks. With some luck, their firewalls block us and we're finally getting privacy.
- userbinator 7y agoThat's been done already with ads: https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/ I've heard that in practice it does get you on a blacklist and they'll start ignoring what you send, so perhaps it does have some effect.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoThat's still a win, I suppose.
- drewmol 7y agoPoint of caution before using adnauseam: I installed and used it on 3 devices for about 6 months a few years ago. I have seen an increase of about 50 fold in the amount of targeted spam phone calls and physical mailers I receive since that time and they've only started to subside in the last year. I can't prove but highly suspect it's a result of my name getting added to a lot of lead DBs as an interested potential customer due to adnauseum ad clicks.
- rightbyte 7y agoYou took shots for the team. Keep up the good work! Reading about the tool makes me kinda wanna install it ... that should mess up the targeting profile quite a bit for my ip.