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Inspired by the discussion in 'they already have your data' I was reminded that AdNauseam exists. I rarely see it mentioned in privacy circles but the idea seems attractive to me, I've used it before and since it's based on uBlock Origin it was just as effective in adblocking and the "poisoning" itself unobtrusive. How do you guys feel about it? Are there reasons it should be avoided?

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[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 22 points 13 hours ago

, couldn't the brokers just filter the period when i started clickning everything?

They don't care about the quality of an individual profile, it's the quality of the aggregate data that's important to them. If anything, your profile might be identified as an outlier compared to the average and simply discarded. They're not going to look any further than that and try and "rescue" your data, they've got a million other profiles to sell to advertisers.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 2 points 6 hours ago

Outlier profiles don't get discarded. They get run through another statistical filtering step to smooth them out by eliminating the weird data points so that they're less than a couple of standard deviations away from the core aggregate.

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