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Gerrit Weiermann

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Feb 23, 2020, 7:08:24 AM2/23/20
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Hey, I hope this is the right forum for this.

I had the following idea:
Why not waste trackers with much random unnecessary data so the tracking algorithm gets confused, instead of just blocking them.

Don't know if this is good but I wanted to share my idea.
Would it be useful or dumb?

r...@privacymaverick.com

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Feb 23, 2020, 1:29:21 PM2/23/20
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Similar efforts include

AdNauseum https://adnauseam.io/
Trackmenot https://trackmenot.io/

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