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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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[–] washington_irving@lemmy.ml 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

Yikes! It’s really not hard to be upfront about it. Or do these dweebs understand that nobody likes this bullshit?

As a software engineer who absolutely uses Claude for all his dumbass ideas, these “developers” don’t know the difference between a toy app and something production ready. Maybe this will get people to start reading source code (like the issue you linked above) and understand what they are deploying way more.