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Fauxx Data poisoning for your everyday tracking (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago by hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Fauxx is an open-source Android privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.

Not my project, but though this is really cool and worth sharing.

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[–] racoon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn’t it easier to browse with JavaScript off whenever possible and with uBlock origin?

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

it's a difference approach, OP maximizes the data being harvested to make it harder to tell what the real usage data is, turning off javascript minimizes the data being collected but potentially makes you unique and stand out among other vanilla users

[–] acido@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

just as an FYI, having JavaScript off potentially adds to your fingerprint.

[–] racoon@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Everything adds to my fingerprint. Nothing minuses to it. No matter what i tried