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submitted 22 hours ago by rikviergever@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[-] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago

https://github.com/digital-grease/fauxx#readme

I have found this app. Kind an "intelligent agent" (marketing speech) that poisons the data collectors databases with noise. They're going to have a hard time to find out which of the online actions were eeally from me or my new nice "agent" creating noise.

[-] qualia@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I'm always curious whether using privacy software somehow marks us as higher value targets such that what metadata we do end up leaking is given disproportionate focus for advertisers and whatnot. Joke's on them: I'm using the foolproof technique of strategic poverty.

[-] cravl@slrpnk.net 14 points 21 hours ago

Sadly strategic poverty only works against those who want to make you buy something. It does very little (and in fact may make things worse) against actors who want to know if they should target you for not being white/straight/wealthy, etc.

[-] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

A little disengenuous considering the article is a blatant plug for e/OS. They're not wrong though. It might be written plainly enough to share with average Joes who just don't understand the threat data harvesting poses to them.

Edit: typo

this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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