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Fauxx (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

https://github.com/digital-grease/fauxx

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe it is because the data brokers will still identify you buy your device fingerprint even when using the vpn

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Yep. They look at way more than your IP. The one I can't tackle yet is window sizes... I have asked a dev to see if he can slightly randomize new browser window sizes just for that. Otherwise I have a bunch of anti fingerprint extensions. And I often find myself unable to pass captchas or services because of it. But most of the time, that works. That and using a non-tracking search engine. I like presearch. And their browser on android supports extensions, just like Edge.