In the novel, "Feed", one of the characters has a hobby of searching for all sorts of random things, in order to confuse the algorithms. She would add absurd it

In the novel, "Feed", one of the characters has a hobby of searching for all sorts of random things, in order to confuse the algorithms. She would add absurd items to her shopping cart, without buying any of them. The book, written in 2002, was very prescient.