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Popping chaff (web browser edition)

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 12:29 am
by blackeagle603
Anyone here have experience running periodic random websearches in the background on a PC?

Heard this discussed today as a way to generate some search history clutter for the likes of the "don't evil" primary colors company.
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Re: Popping chaff (web browser edition)

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:53 am
by Precision
no but it sounds like a good idea. Wouldn't a VPN be even better?

Re: Popping chaff (web browser edition)

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:15 pm
by Gunnuts
blackeagle603 wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 12:29 am Anyone here have experience running periodic random websearches in the background on a PC?

Heard this discussed today as a way to generate some search history clutter for the likes of the "don't evil" primary colors company.
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For Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... rackmenot/

Re: Popping chaff (web browser edition)

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:57 pm
by blackeagle603
no but it sounds like a good idea. Wouldn't a VPN be even better?
I go by the assumption that everything is hackable. So belt and suspenders rules apply. Use a VPN and would like to also create piles of bogus search noise.

Re: Popping chaff (web browser edition)

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:03 pm
by blackeagle603
Gunnuts wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:15 pm

For Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... rackmenot/
Thanks I'll play with that. Which reminds me I need to try Firefox again... For whatever reasons lost to time I gave it up and got complacent using Chrome.

I'm happy to own GOOG stock, but I really need to do better at weaning myself off personal use of their platform.