I want to poison as much of my online data as I can, and I know that companies can get it anyway if I delete it, but if I were to spam sheer volume, it would cost more than it’s worth to try and sort it.

Dad uses windows and the main device I use is his laptop, and I understand that Microsoft scrapes everything they can. He’s going to reset his laptop soon, so all the junk is erased, but would it be possible to temporarily poison most data on there (from ms perspective) until it’s reset?

Would it be possible to do that on other things too, say corporate owned software, social media, etc?

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[–] 36 points 11 months ago (6 children)

For M$ no clue, for browsing,
AdNauseam comes to mind.

It's a fork of uBlock Origin,
which instead of blocking all the ads,
hides all the ads + clicks on them all in the background, which:

  • Costs advertisers a lot of money
  • Poisens your data profile, since they can't make up your actual interests anymore

It's more protest-ware then privacy-ware though,
since you'll be overflooding them with bs data,
instead of minimizing the data collected.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    oh thanks! It wont let me upload to chrome, but it's probably user error. I'll figure it out

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