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Re:How to Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should... by mystified5016 on Friday July 04, 2025 @05:59PM (#44468186)
The point is to poison your ad tracking profile so that advertisers can't figure out who you are and what you'll buy.

No matter how secure your browser setup is, Google is tracking you. By filling their trackers with garbage, there's less that can personally identify you as an individual

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Re:How to Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should... by mediumsmart on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:53PM (#44469979)
Apple bought the patent to do just that 13 years ago … the .Mac observer article about it is now gone - here is the archive record

https://web.archive.org/web/20200601034723/https://www.macob...

Carter invented it and got paid so they can bury it. Must be good tech.

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