I've been experimenting with behavioral tracking on a bunch of platforms for a while now, but it's very difficult research - if you come across something interesting, replication is very difficult if not impossible, or sometimes the underlying paradigm will change entirely and force you to start from square 1. My motivation is that I would love, and personally pay a ridiculous amount of money for, a service that obfu…
Just mentioning AdNauseam, which clicks on all ads in the background to poison the data. https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam
I like the spirit of stuff like this a lot and have entertained similar ideas, but the issue with specifically this is that depending on where you live, this may be illegal (which is effing ridiculous - I’ve had to build defense against click fraud, in my opinion if a website or company is vulnerable to this it’s their own lack of diligence, but whatever). So to me, stuff like this is a fun gray area middle finger but ultimately does not do anything to solve my problem, which is I want to completely opt out of behavioral tracking in any way shape or form, and if I cannot, I want the data truly anonymous as was promised/implied by these same people over the last two decades every time privacy conerns were raised. I know it’s a much wider problem than stuff like this is meant to solve, just wanted to throw it out there that (hilariously) stuff like this is illegal depending on local statutes.