Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History To Fool Advertisers

'Security through obscurity is out, security through tomfoolery is in.
From a report:

That's the basic philosophy sold by Track THIS, "a new kind of
incognito" browsing project, which opens up 100 tabs crafted to fit a
specific character -- a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday
prepper, or an influencer. The idea is that your browsing history will
be depersonalized and poisoned, so advertisers won't know how to
target ads to you. It was developed as a collaboration between mschf
(pronounced "mischief") internet studios and Mozilla's Firefox as a
way of promoting Firefox Quantum, the newest Firefox browser. [...]
Just a warning -- if you use Track THIS it may take several minutes
for all 100 tabs to load. (I used Chrome as my browser.) But when as
it gradually loads, it's like taking a first-person journey through
someone else's consciousness.'

-- source: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/06/26/192258

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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