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0 pointsretrocryptid2y ago0 comments

There's probably a market for fake id streams: want my contact history? Fine here's 100 fake contacts. Want my location data? Fine. I'm at the Taylor Swift concert two states over. Want to listen in on my microphone? Fine. Here's a recording of Pat Boone trying to do rap.

I'm far from the first person to recommend this.

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sandworm1012y ago

That will come in next-gen adblockers. Ads will run in an emulated sandbox, unseen by the user. And many user-agent tools already allow randomization, a tiny fictional history.

retrocryptidOP2y ago

Sure, but they'll be banned by Apple / Android ToSes. But meh, that shouldn't stop everybody. And it would be fun to watch the back and forth between ad tech and ad blockers.

DANmode2y ago

Android doesn't have ToS.

Google may.

No other variants of Android do, AFAIK.

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derivagral2y ago

This tool sort of exists for web ads, though I think people started getting account actions or something from G.

https://adnauseam.io/

pydry2y ago

There is a market for this but while Google controls android and Apple controls iPhone and it remains a duopoly theres no way in hell they will unlock their ecosystems enough to allow it to thrive.

dylan6042y ago

That's an easy solve with a charge of corrupting of evidence or some such. We know you weren't at the Taylor Swift concert 2 states away because your WiFi history and cell tower triangulation puts you on the couch watching the Love Island.

rolph2y ago

do the chattels and daily dealings, of life become evidence at birth, or do you have to commit a crime before anything becomes evidence?

dylan6042y ago

When the Eye of Sauron gazes upon you, by nature of the gaze you are under suspicion. Depending what is found while the gaze is upon you might decide if you are guilty or not. However, you cannot be ruled out as a terrorist until you've been under that gaze. By falsifying your data just means that the gaze will be much more intense because you're clearly behaving in the manner of someone guilty. It takes time to determine if that guilty looking behavior is because of guilty actions or just some nerd trying to corrupt the data. Either way, you are behaving like a subversive, so you'll just be remembered for that for future investigations.

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sandworm1012y ago

That will come in next-gen adblockers. Ads will run in an emulated sandbox, unseen by the user. And many user-agent tools already allow randomization, a tiny fictional history.

retrocryptidOP2y ago

Sure, but they'll be banned by Apple / Android ToSes. But meh, that shouldn't stop everybody. And it would be fun to watch the back and forth between ad tech and ad blockers.

DANmode2y ago

Android doesn't have ToS.

Google may.

No other variants of Android do, AFAIK.

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derivagral2y ago

This tool sort of exists for web ads, though I think people started getting account actions or something from G.

https://adnauseam.io/

pydry2y ago

There is a market for this but while Google controls android and Apple controls iPhone and it remains a duopoly theres no way in hell they will unlock their ecosystems enough to allow it to thrive.

dylan6042y ago

rolph2y ago

do the chattels and daily dealings, of life become evidence at birth, or do you have to commit a crime before anything becomes evidence?

dylan6042y ago

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