Of course it goes without saying that I am hopelessly dependent on the ingot

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

I like how when the twitter migration happened everyone was freaking out and it was basically a tumblr red scare where everyone tried to scare them away with cringe posts and now that the reddit migration is happening people are like "Ah welcome my friend! Come, sit! I hope you brought memes from far off lands! How was your journey, do you want a drink?"

and honestly that's fair

Retweet this if u ever jerk that crazy thangg

badass food for my dope baby

Wow. Frank Zappa telling it like it is. No fucks given.

santa deniers on science-mas eve hearing charles darwin evolving down the chimney

Can you guys just watch goodfellas

I don’t wanna Tommy’s too scary

“You think I’m scary? Scary how? Scary like a dracula?”

BREAKING BAD but if JESSE was a GAMER

walt: hank with you ive come to know a truer and more pure love than i ever had with a woman. there is a profound comfort and warmth in your presence and each moment we spend together, no matter how secret it must be, will never be shameful or indecent to me. my love for you knows no bounds and tonight id like to express that by giving you my body

hank: walt, i love you. and tonight i will show that love at the altar of our sex. i will treat you with the kindness and tenderness you deserve. i want to reward your vulnerability, assuage your fear. tonight i want our bond to grow deeper and closer

jesse: yo mista white wrath of the lich king just came out, on like. world of warcraft. im gonna go play a Death Knight with skinny pete