lauantai 15. heinäkuuta 2017

Let's not block those trackers


Many of you know that just about everyone is tracked in the web. By advertisers, by facebook, by google, by pretty much everyone. And many people don't like it. I certainly don't. And many and seek to actively block any attempts of such tracking.

I have started to feel that such attempts are pretty much for nothing, and while they may obfuscate some of the information, at least temporarily, too much information remains to be gathered.

As long as they can track people, to figure out their interests, they keep doing this.

So here I suggest an alternate approach, difficult as it might be:

Poison the well. Instead of blocking those trackers, I want an add-on that actively lies to them. Send them random, made up (but preferably plausible) tracking cookies.

Even more fun would be tracking cookie exchange. For every session you open, browser would switch personality (of tracking sites you explicitly set to do so) with some completely random person. This wold not be necessary, but it would hurt those data hoarders way more than just completely random identity.

Suddenly much of the information they gather is worthless. They can never be sure the information gathered with tracking is from real person -- or some random person with completely different interests.

Anyone up for some real fun?



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