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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What is a privacy friendly application that you'd love to have, but no one has developed yet? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by reactive_recall@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The trackers can't tell which are manual clicks and which come from the plugin. That's the idea. It obfuscates your tracking by random clicks you don't see. It costs them data and makes tracking you worthless.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I misunderstood but it seems the plugin clicks all the buttons.... every one... once.

So if the website notices that it can "unclick" everything exactly once.

Therefore only the manual clicks will survive because that button was clicked twice: once manually, and once automatically.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think there is a setting to how often it clicks. From rare, 10%, to all, 100%. I understand what you’re saying about it now. I didn’t realise the option for all was there. I thought it was more random.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

OK that is better.

Reminds me of how I considered swapping phones with friends for an hour while we each browsed, confusing our otherwise homogenous personality profile being compiled somewhere by Google et al.

But phones are too personalized to bother doing that now anyhow.