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@p @amerika @dcc @Forestofenchantment @PurpCat @nach @0 @SockPuppet @eriner @istvan @viber @dj @FourOh-LLC @doonxib @Hoss p, explain to me the feasibility of these browser extensions, please:
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@Suzu @0 @Forestofenchantment @FourOh-LLC @Hoss @PurpCat @SockPuppet @amerika @dcc @dj @doonxib @eriner @istvan @nach @viber I think "Ad Nauseum" would probably fizzle out pretty quickly unless you built out the entire headless page load again and then shoved it through a proxy, but it only costs the *advertisers* money: it would generate profits for the ad companies and the sites that display ads.
It's probably easier to run a public Searx node than bother with "TrackMeNot". "WhatCampaign" is plausible, but all it would do is obscure a couple of metadata variables that, with normal browsing, usually stick around anyway.
I never used Privacy Badger or Privacy Possum. I imagine it does not actually cost those companies much. Even if the analytics companies were structured such that fake data cost them money, these are companies that produce insights from oceans of data: they know how to tell the robot to flag suspicious behavior and disregard it.
This stuff actually could work in big enough volume, like if you could DDoS Google Analytics. None of them are going to do that kind of volume.
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