TrackMeNot Reviews and details

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• What are your best data poisoning tools?

  TrackMeNot: runs as a low-priority background process that periodically issuesrandomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!,Google, and Bing. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost'queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data intoaccurate or identifying user profiles. Source: over 1 year ago

• OSINT Guide, Part 4. Preserving your Own Privacy.

  We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using practices and technologies that make use of it, including: The secure browser Tor, which (among other anti-surveillance technologies) muddles our Internet activity with that of other Tor users, concealing our trail in that of many others. The browser plugins TrackMeNot and AdNauseam, which explore obfuscation techniques by issuing many fake search requests... Source: over 1 year ago

• I feel like this really fits here with the message of how data is constantly captured.

  No doubt, and I agree. I used to use trackmenot. Source: over 1 year ago

• A website/software which spam your Google searches to confuse the data collections

  Https://adnauseam.io/ and http://trackmenot.io/ are two that I have heard of. I think they both work slightly differently tho. Source: over 1 year ago

• poisoning the database

  TrackMeNot: "An artware browser add-on to protect privacy in web-search. By iomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile(s) and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.". Source: over 1 year ago

• Fake web tracking data plugins that still work?

  Does anyone of any fake web tracking data plugins that still work? I tried using noiszy and trackmenot but they appear to have been taken down or discontinued for no apparent reason. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What do you guys think?

  Same principle as TrackMeNot. Privacy by "hiding" is long dead and always will be on the modern internet, so the only way to have any modicum of privacy in the modern age is to scream random bullshit on every available frequency. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is it true that there are certain illegal search terms, and searching them can lead to your searches being tracked? Or is this a myth?

  This (slightly outdated) browser extension periodically sends queries to search engines to pollute your profile: http://trackmenot.io/. Source: about 2 years ago

• TrackMeNot for Youtube?

  Most of you probably know https://trackmenot.io/ which is a browser extension that does bogus search queries on Google for disinformation to make your data useless. Source: over 2 years ago

• Instead of blocking data, send confusing data.

  Same devs also made an extension that feeds search motors a lot of random entries all the time: https://trackmenot.io/. Source: over 2 years ago

• According to Linus Sebastian (LTT), Youtube ignored feedbacks brought up in their “dislike counter” meeting

  Http://trackmenot.io/ if anyone wants to use it. Source: over 2 years ago

• LPT: Trying to reduce impulse buying? Throw a few rabdom searches in to Google.

  Track Me Not is a browser extension that will do this for you https://trackmenot.io/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Would it be feasible for a program to be created that could disrupt how companies collect data on users?

  That's actually a pretty good idea - you've basically reinvented privacy through obfuscation. There are a couple browser extensions that do exactly that, mainly AdNauseam which is a modified version of uBlock Origin that clicks on every ad it blocks to confuse ad profilers, and TrackMeNot, which just searches google for random stuff, constantly, I imagine to convince google that you are some sort of maniac (and... Source: over 2 years ago

• Looking for active missleading Adblocking and anti/fake-fingerprinting tool

  Thank you, this is exactly what I had in mind, along with https://trackmenot.io/ mentioned on the same page. I'll give it a try and see how it goes! Source: over 2 years ago

• Government secretly orders Google to track anyone searching certain names, addresses, and phone numbers

  Not a honey-pot, but TrackMeNot obfuscates your search history by doing random searches throughout the day. Source: over 2 years ago

• Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt

  For search, I use TrackMeNot, a browser extension that makes random searches every few seconds: https://trackmenot.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

  I'm someone who remembers all the discussions about how to use automated noise to try to obfuscate your data from the likes of Google, back when people though that had a chance of working. eg: https://trackmenot.io/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class

  I've used adNauseam (only on FF, Chrome booted it from their store) and TrackMeNot. AdNauseam blocks ads, but also virtually "clicks" on them to make it look like you are interested in every ad served to you, filling your data profile with noise (in theory). TrackMeNot does a similar thing with google, submitting random popular queries to google search in the background.... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising

  People actually have created adversarial browser extension checkout AdNaseum (https://adnauseam.io/) which will click every single ad on a page, as well as acting as an adblocker that is based on ublock. In addition the TrackMeNot (https://trackmenot.io/) extension will randomly create search requests in the background constantly generating useless noise. If you combine them you get a wonderful situation where... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Show HN: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity (Updated to v0.9.8)

  Nice guide, this is like a platonic ideal of anonymity we'd like to have but never will. Years of using FB when I was younger, general lapses in judgement or overlooks in privacy when in tense or pressing situations, compromises I've made in using services with certain people or jobs, many regretful apps or purchases and sign ups, years of my email and phone number shared to 3rd parties, I could go on... And... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

  You might enjoy this project. It submits random search queries over time to ruin the accuracy of companies tracking https://trackmenot.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago