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by noiszytech 3370 days ago
It does suck some bandwidth - and your point is well taken, that would be a great technique too. It loads about one new page per minute, so it shouldn't be a crazy amount (unless pages contain video, for example). The thing is, anything less than visiting from your own browser on your own machine and doing user-like things (like waiting and then clicking again) is easily filter-out-able for most tracking tools. The idea here is to purposefully associate the "noise" with your online footprint.