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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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[โ€“] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

this seems to be a heavily vibecoded project, the readme has at least one contradiction and weird statements and formatting.

I mean now is it clicking ads or is it not? and what's the reason for including the "tech stack"?

[โ€“] washington_irving@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

This issue was raised on github, the dev admitted to using AI (but probably still underplayed it's role in the project) but closed the issue and didn't bother to disclose it in the readme.

https://github.com/digital-grease/fauxx/issues/8