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
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    12 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