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by djflutt3rshy 2503 days ago
>The last fit of madness will be a hidden session in Chrome browsing the web on your behalf, building up a bogus profile for the ad networks, and the ad networks trying to figure out if the clicks in your fake session are sufficiently human-like.

The first parts of this have already been tested by Mozilla: https://trackthis.link/

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> https://trackthis.link/

It opens 100 tabs? With third-party ressources and javascript blocked, it will do little in terms of shaping my ad-profile. But maybe 4GB are not enough to open 100 tabs, so I skipt this.