New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What could be the downside of polluting the data collected by companies?
Ask HN: What could be the downside of polluting the data collected by companies?
2 by datapollution | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Time and again we have seen that companies collecting data of users who have never agreed to their ToS by creating ghost profiles. I have been trying to prevent data collection on my family by blocking ads, trackers and fingerprinting methods but so far I can tell that it has become a game of cat and mouse. I still see personalized ads and the entire endeavor has become futile. Now, I am thinking of running a bot that mimics a human browsing but with bogus topics. For instance, open a random Wikipedia and use Google to search 5 to 10 words in the Wikipedia page on Google and open links from the results arbitrarily and clicks ads on those links with a given probability. And do this throughout the day with certain interval. Or, even go as far training a AI to observe my browsing habit and mimic it. But, before I go that route, can anyone suggest problem problems and improvements on this experiment. I was wondering what downsides such a thing could have? Would it help in anyway? Thank you.
2 by datapollution | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Time and again we have seen that companies collecting data of users who have never agreed to their ToS by creating ghost profiles. I have been trying to prevent data collection on my family by blocking ads, trackers and fingerprinting methods but so far I can tell that it has become a game of cat and mouse. I still see personalized ads and the entire endeavor has become futile. Now, I am thinking of running a bot that mimics a human browsing but with bogus topics. For instance, open a random Wikipedia and use Google to search 5 to 10 words in the Wikipedia page on Google and open links from the results arbitrarily and clicks ads on those links with a given probability. And do this throughout the day with certain interval. Or, even go as far training a AI to observe my browsing habit and mimic it. But, before I go that route, can anyone suggest problem problems and improvements on this experiment. I was wondering what downsides such a thing could have? Would it help in anyway? Thank you.
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