• cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’m not sure I agree with that approach though. I get that the goal is to cost the advertisers money without benefit, but I kinda feel like contributing to that system at all is just encouraging them to do it more.

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        3 months ago

        It provides junk data as well, which a lot of sites and advertisers use to sell to others. If enough people do it, then it becomes less profitable to do so since it because apparent there’s a deliberate attempt to obsfucate.

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          3 months ago

          What if not enough people do it though? If you don’t reach that threshold, aren’t you just inflating the amount of data they have to sell?