Not updated but it still works fine

Some stuff that you can use are

• AdNauseam, visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them, nuking the usefulness of ad trackers
• TrackMeNot, spams queries on search engines, clicks some links here and there, all in the background. Works perfectly with AdNauseam, nuking both ad & search profiling

Then there is this experimental (HARPO: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising) paper on using ML to obfuscate online tracking, it’s a research paper so my understanding is limited to the excerpt 😅 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05792

Could be done on another device though, a computer could pretend to be your phone and start sending tons of useless data maybe? I don’t know how feasible it is.

You’d have to automate the retrieval of IDs for each data harvesting platform (including web based cookies to be feature complete) and manage to send the properly formatted data on each platform.

Funnily enough though, the kind of fuzzy data generation that just looks plausible enough could be a great usecase for LLMs

Nah, a reverse faraday cage, something that would make telemetry useless by flooding it with trash. We can try all we can not to be spied on, but it’s an uphill battle. If we start being so noisy that they’d have to sift through tons of crap to maybe perhaps get a tiny speck of useful data, it won’t economically make sense to continue harvesting the data.

It’s one of the things I do with a combo of trackmenot + adnauseam, spam web search & click websites and all their ads automatically while I use my computer. Good luck profiling me correctly

I don’t see how not, but I’m not a lawyer. From my perspective only Waterfox’s edits would actually be GPL anyway, since they don’t own copyright to Mozilla. If they wanted to integrate their work upstream that would be an issue

He’s definitely a nerd. He’s a very competent guy, no random wannabe would be able to make what he did with bcacheFS (and apparently extremely boastful about it?), he’s just very weird. Also he’s an open source dev, I doubt he’s trying to gain money from all this. Again, just a weird guy imo

Okay, having followed the bcacheFS drama I did suspect I’d hear from that guy again but now that’s unexpected

Not even Taiwan claims to be a country though. They claim to be the sole legitimate government of China, hence their actual name, The Republic Of China, and not “republic of taiwan” or some other thing.