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by matheusmoreira 1712 days ago
It's tracking. All tracking should be blocked on principle. I don't want them to have any data about me at all. Failing that, I want them to have as little data as possible. And I want whatever little data they have to be useless to them.

> I generally assume that whatever website I am on would have a good sense of what I am up to just based on server side logs.

True. We can't stop the site from logging HTTP requests.

Maybe we can find a way to poison that data set though. What if we had a custom reddit client that generated random traffic to random subreddits in the background? Maybe that would pollute their logs enough that they can no longer build an accurate profile out of it.

> if I block 1p logging they might not have a down to the second understanding of how long I am impressing on something

Good. I don't want them to know. They should remain in perpetual uncertainty about whether their mindhacking methods are working.