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Show HN: Clone Patrol – Hide Your Identity Inside a Crowd of Clones

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Post by softdev12 » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 6:01 PM UTC

Show HN: Clone Patrol – Hide Your Identity Inside a Crowd of Clones
clonepatrol.com

Re: Show HN: Clone Patrol – Hide Your Identity Inside a Crowd of Clones

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Post by softdev12 » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 6:02 PM UTC

TLDR: This is digital identity obfuscation for web privacy. Advertising and marketing networks have gotten exceptionally good at tracking people across the web. For example, if you have a Google account, you can go into your Settings for Google Ads to see your Age/Gender inference.[1]

[1] https://www.google.com/ads/preferences

Re: Show HN: Clone Patrol – Hide Your Identity Inside a Crowd of Clones

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Post by madamelic » Wed, Nov 15, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

How is this better than switching to DuckDuckGo and Brave Browser?

Re: Show HN: Clone Patrol – Hide Your Identity Inside a Crowd of Clones

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Post by sutble » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 12:37 AM UTC

This looks really great! Any plans to release on Firefox soon?

Re: Show HN: Clone Patrol – Hide Your Identity Inside a Crowd of Clones

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Post by rjromero » Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:43 AM UTC

I can’t believe people really care that much about seeing ads for pet food after Googling for the vet that they would let something like this run constantly in the background. Absolutely unfathomable to me.