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Information (noise) inundation is a very old tactic. TrackMeNot has been around since 2006 and does the same thing, over multiple search engines, and with vario
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
Information (noise) inundation is a very old tactic. TrackMeNot has been around since 2006 and does the same thing, over multiple search engines, and with various customizations: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackmenot/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackmenot/
There's probably much older tools that do the same thing, as well.
Worth noting is that Schneier is critical of the efficacy of this approach: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/trackmenot_1.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/trackmenot_1....
- RelaxTheresTime 13y agoThanks for the Schneier article! That's exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping to get from people on HN. He brings up some great points.