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		xj9 on July 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say... what about adnauseum ? my browser appears to click every as I am exposed to, but I don't see them. better or worse?

lightbyte on July 31, 2017 [–]

I'd imagine that is much worse. It's not random at all, you're basically giving them huge amounts of extra data points. That extension was supposed to used to mess up click rates for ads, not stop you from being tracked.

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