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Re:The Fantasy of Opting Out by waynecochran on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:18AM (#26181702)
Is there any hope in feeding the surveilance noise -- a lot of it? e.g., create bots with my credentials that visit random web sites, have a phone that reports bogus GPS coordinates, numerous dummy accounts, that sort of thing...

Or if enough folks gang up and feed the system an avalanche of random (or misdirected) information that we can drown our signature in a sea of noise?

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Re:The Fantasy of Opting Out by marshmallow_12 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:06PM (#26184736)
short term: i expect so, long term not so much. At best, some occasional fuzz will mar an otherwise clear picture of you and your activities. Too many fake accounts will only force users to surrender more personal information in order to authenticate themselves.
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