• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    It provides junk data as well, which a lot of sites and advertisers use to sell to others. If enough people do it, then it becomes less profitable to do so since it because apparent there’s a deliberate attempt to obsfucate.

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      10 days ago

      What if not enough people do it though? If you don’t reach that threshold, aren’t you just inflating the amount of data they have to sell?

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        10 days ago

        Worst case scenario, you give them junk data that they cannot reliably market to you specifically. Best case scenario, they realize it’s all junk and throw it out. I doubt they’ll change their entire model until it’s five 9s worth but every little thorn in their foot just for spite’s sake.