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Fauxx Data poisoning for your everyday tracking (github.com)
submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/privacy@programming.dev
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Fauxx is an open-source Android privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.

Not my project, but though this is really cool and worth sharing.

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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/1105/

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Just here to say, there is an even better way to embed an xkcd in Lemmy Markdown.

[![License Plate](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/license_plate.png "The next day: 'What? Six bank robberies!? But I just vandalized the library!' 'Nice try. They saw your plate with all the 1's and I's.' 'That's impossible! I've been with my car the whole ti-- ... wait. Ok, wow, that was clever of her.'")](https://xkcd.com/1105/)

This will not only make the image into a link but also give the much required hover text.
Like so...

License Plate

Feel free to make a Python (or sth) snippet that creates the link for you.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The former is easier to read.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

If you are talking about the picture being easier to read, then that's a renderer thing and is better off being fixed.
If you are talking about the code being easier to read, yes. The line I made has a 3 features vs the 1 feature in 1 line of the former, so it is to be expected. And that's why I don't expect people to make it themselves.