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1. What can the average person do to avoid having their personal data collected and sold? 2. How would one go about creating fake data that gets collected and
by zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
1. What can the average person do to avoid having their personal data collected and sold?
2. How would one go about creating fake data that gets collected and sold?
- eszed 3y ago1) Nothing. 2) This is a wonderful "Hacker-ish" approach to the problem: Pollute the Database! My fear is that in the real (ie non tech-hacker) world, whatever false data my dbPollution script put into the table dedicated to me would be used to target me, and that the argument "No, I didn't make [suspicious searches 1, 2, and 3] - this tool designed to make Law Enforcement's job harder did!" would not be a winning argument with a) Judges, and b) a jury of my normie "peers". In theory I love it; in practice, it scares the shit out of me.
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoI'm thinking there needs to be more tools like this https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-bans-adnauseam-from-chrome-the-ad-blocker-that-clicks-on-all-ads/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-bans-adn... Maybe it would be easy to sort through, but maybe not