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I wish there was an online service that would let users poison their own data. Like allowing me to intentionally get emails about random stuff, shopping receipt
by reacharavindh 5y ago
I wish there was an online service that would let users poison their own data. Like allowing me to intentionally get emails about random stuff, shopping receipts etc from absurd entities just to throw the profilers off our scent. Would be fun.
Same with something I can run Google Maps with my account logged in so that Google thinks I am one heck of a super traveler, and shopper of things.
Something that watches random YouTube videos for me, and randomly clicks on ads for me.. :-)
Uploads random photos into a Google Photos account for me :-)
That’s be heck of a lot fun!
- decrypt 5y agoFor search, I use TrackMeNot, a browser extension that makes random searches every few seconds: https://trackmenot.io/ https://trackmenot.io/
- shultays 5y agoSemi related xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/packages.png https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/packages.png
- dmitryminkovsky 5y agoThis is very cool but I wonder how effective it is. I suspect Google can trivially discard the activity it generates?
- drdeadringer 5y agoWhat I'm hearing is that it's gotten so bad that people are now wanting email spam in order to combat data tracking, if not wanting email spam to combat email spam.
- samstave 5y agoHas anyone else all of a sudden been getting a lot of actual spam delivered to their Gmail Inbox in the last ~3 weeks. I have been getting a lot. (a couple a week, which is a lot compared to zero for N years.) ((I was a customer of Postini before google bought them and integrated them into gmail as, IIRC, their spam system...))