• EvilBit@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I was just wondering about a general privacy goal of having an LLM bot just flood the zone with random data to try and confound advertising models, simulating clicks and likes/engagement across the spectrum just to wreck any meaningful data correlations.

    If you were aiming this concept at two specific targets, i.e., costing the Trump campaign money and screwing with their data, things could get really interesting. Like an open source bot that would coordinate bizarre trends across large cohorts of users to convince the data miners that, for example, a disproportionate number of voters in key regions are demographically or behaviorally skewed.

    • tarmarbar@startrek.website
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      7 months ago

      Take a look at this browser extension: https://adnauseam.io/

      As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks’ databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.

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        7 months ago

        AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks’ databases

        Do those clicks appear to be coming from me, or from some random fake identity?

        False floods of data or not, there are some things I’d rather not have any identifiable contact with at all.

          • Zoot@reddthat.com
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            7 months ago

            It should atleast poison any data they gather about you right? Since you’re not ever going to realistically click on any of these ads, it would now look like anything and everything interests you

            • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
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              7 months ago

              That’s the point. You can’t really build an advertising profile if they literally engage with every single thing all the time.