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Re:Apple acquires "identity pollution" patent aimed at fight... by nextstep on Saturday June 23, 2012 @11:06PM (#4152469)
Paranoid Linux used to do something similar. The concept was lots of seemingly real browsing traffic would be randomly generated through your computer, and this would add a significant amount of noise to the total web browser traffic to your machine.
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Re:Apple acquires "identity pollution" patent aimed at fight... by DanBC on Sunday June 24, 2012 @07:41AM (#4153149)
See also "TrackMeNot" - (http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/) which is a browser extension to generate realistic fake traffic.

I haven't seen any analysis of this extension, but I suspect it'd be trivially easy to split the fake traffic from the real traffic. I guess it has an annoyance factor if people have to store your traffic data.

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