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maccam912·Mar 29, 2017

Yes VPN is a good answer here, but another idea to make the data they collect and sell less useful would be something like https://github.com/WhiteBeachStudios/cyberflare to hide your real usage habits among a bunch of artificially generated traffic.

In Disapproval of FCC regulations a significant blow against privacy protection

abemishler·Sep 3, 2013Submission

Disguise Yourself with CyberFlare

Earlier this summer we learned that our online activity is being recorded and analyzed. Some believe encrypting traffic is the answer to preserving privacy(1), however, encryption is complicated(2) and its real-world efficacy debatable(3). A new project, CyberFlare, eschews encryption for simply creating noise with artificial traffic which makes it hard to identify trends in genuine traffic. The code for CyberFlare is released under the GNU GPLv3 and is written in C++ using Qt5. Find it at https://github.com/whitebeachstudios/cyberflare. Check out the code, and join us today! (1)http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/29/google-facebook-data-encryption (2)http://twit.tv/sn (3)http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

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