I’m always curious whether using privacy software somehow marks us as higher value targets such that what metadata we do end up leaking is given disproportionate focus for advertisers and whatnot. Joke’s on them: I’m using the foolproof technique of strategic poverty.
https://github.com/digital-grease/fauxx#readme
I have found this app. Kind an “intelligent agent” (marketing speech) that poisons the data collectors databases with noise. They’re going to have a hard time to find out which of the online actions were eeally from me or my new nice “agent” creating noise.
How does this affect battery life? Seems like a lot of background activities going on. But the concept is fantastic.
It does affect battery life.
You can mitigate it by having it doing the fake requests on wifi only, set time limits or reduce the intensity.
And I also am acustomed to chatge my phone during the day in the office.
A little disengenuous considering the article is a blatant plug for e/OS. They’re not wrong though. It might be written plainly enough to share with average Joes who just don’t understand the threat data harvesting poses to them.
Edit: typo
