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Firefox (or OSs) should add a feature that randomly makes requests to a bunch of unrelated websites just to mess up their data collection and render it useless.
by brenden2 6y ago
Firefox (or OSs) should add a feature that randomly makes requests to a bunch of unrelated websites just to mess up their data collection and render it useless. This can only work if it's widely deployed.
- mywittyname 6y agoAuthorities will either look at the source code, compel the authors to explain how it works, push their own changes for the code in question, or just empirically monitor the random behavior and build models to filter such noise.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoWhy do you even bother answering if we're so screwed. I guess you enjoy failure. Don't even bother fighting back, just knuckle under. Makes for an easy life.
- CyanBird 6y agoThis is not a matter of "fix everything pill" tho, but a fight where we have to erode and degrade their capabilities, this is an arms race, you don't just stop fighting because the other side has got better weapons and systems, you develop your own gorilla capabilities
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoTrackMeNot does this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackmenot/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackmenot/ I have used it for years.