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Fauxx Data poisoning for your everyday tracking
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Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/1105/
Just here to say, there is an even better way to embed an xkcd in Lemmy Markdown.
[](https://xkcd.com/1105/)
This will not only make the image into a link but also give the much required hover text.
Like so...
Feel free to make a Python (or sth) snippet that creates the link for you.
The former is easier to read.
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 (although I do make it manually).
Nice!
The question is whether or not the people selling this data can still profit off of it or not. Otherwise, you're not really disrupting the system, you're just misaligning your own advertisements.
Ads are the least of things to be concerned with really. Job prospects, insurance adjustments, credit decisions, all kinds of things get bundled up with the kind of data profiles that get built.
Cool. I think trackmenot https://www.trackmenot.io/ does something similar, just in browsers