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

  • washington_irving@lemmy.ml
    11·
    17 hours ago

    yes, but when you spoof fingerprints the only thing connecting the noise generated by the app to the user is then the IP address and ironically the README recommends using it alongside a VPN to hide your IP, which means that the queries made by Fauxx are, like you said, “just noise”, not noise associated with your profile, the noise could as well be generated by any other device

    also, I think that the extensive use of LLMs should be stated in the description, not burried in a closed issue, as it is an important matter especially when creating a privacy oriented project

      • washington_irving@lemmy.ml
        21·
        16 hours ago

        Still, browser fingerprints are most commonly used and spoofing them seems counterproductive. If the goal is to maximize confusion about users interests and search history it should mimic actual users’ behavior as closely as possible.

          • washington_irving@lemmy.ml
            1·
            8 hours ago

            ahh, sorry what I meant is that the app shouldn’t randomize identifiers, such as browser fingerprints or even cookies, because the goal is to make the noise associated with the user’s profile, otherwise it’s just random requests and it becomes pointless.

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

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

      • crandlecan@mander.xyz
        1·
        17 hours 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.