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by NelsonMinar 2955 days ago
You know, I tried politely setting Do-Not-Track in my headers to express my preferences. The marketers and publishers laughed and ignored my expressed preferences. So now all I can do is fight back any way I know how.

What I really want is an extension that somehow corrupts the UTM data so that the trackers have bad data.
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wumpus 2955 days ago
Hm, I could supply a list of utm parameters observed in the wild. Then you could substitute a randomly picked but valid set of parameters...
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virtzzz 2955 days ago
The only problem with that is that they'd have no idea the data would be bad. Even if they did, there's nothing stopping the marketers from taking the bad data as proof one or the other campaign was actually working.
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wumpus 2955 days ago
I'm OK with both of those "problems".
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