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What Hacker News says
- You'd be advised to read their book, by Nissenbaum and Brunton that describes the theory behind privacy through obfuscation. It argues that by clicking all the ads, all useful information is lost in the noise. Simply put, the signal-to-noise ratio is so heavily biased to noise that the signal is lost. https://www.amazon.com/Obfuscation-Users-Guide-Privacy-Prote...
- A big fan of work by Helen Nissenbaum's & co.! Check out her Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest from MIT press.Adnauseam requires AdBlock. Wish it worked with the more lightweight uBlock!
- One of the issues with Nissenbaum and Brunton's Obfuscation book is that there has been an extensive argument made that it actually supports pro-state forces, not opposes them [0]
[0] http://computationalculture.net/poisoned-fruit-booby-trapped...
