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by paulie_a 1933 days ago
Data poisoning needs to become a standard practice. Make the "valuable" ad data useless
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From an economics perspective it seems like a more viable approach. Most of the techniques considered state of the art now are likely easily detectable by Google and other ad tech companies - they have a very good idea of which data can be safely discarded. Rather than blocking Google Analytics I wonder what would happen if browsers started responding with garbage.
Couldn't agree more. It's a far better approach as a cloaking technique. Reason I use privacy-possum addon on Firefox.