RoboronSep 21, 2021
mhoye
You know what I want, I want a better option when some site says, "to access this file we need to see and download your entire address book". I want more than "yes" or "no". I want "lie to it." Give it an address book full of noise. Tell Dropbox I only know one person, but he's the Pope."
Sep 20, 2021 at 5:33pmWeb
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@mhoye Alas I haven't found such a broad liar, but for other info like browser location spoofing there's https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/location-guard/

Why of course I'm in London now. Wait, nope, I'm in Moscow. Or Dubai. Or...

Location Guard – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Location Guard for Firefox. Hide your geographic location from websites. Report a fake location with the addition of random noise in order to protect your privacy. Per site settings with three configurable levels of accuracy or even the possibility to use a fixed location.

Show threadtwodimesSep 20, 2021
@mhoye honestly this feels a bit like my request for a digital assistant that works for ME not Google.
Show threadRobertSep 20, 2021
@mhoye "yeah, I'm good friends with Edouard Siddon"
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Sep 20, 2021

@mhoye There are tools that do this AFAIU, not sure of deets. I think LineageOS or F-Droid would be good places to look.

I tend to answer registration-email-required forms with ceo+<random-value>@domain.tld, where domain and TLD match the site requesting the information.

sales+<string> would likely be even better.

Choke those channels.

("Plus-notation" email addresses typically get delivered to the addressee before the "+" symbol, the rest is used by the sender but ignored by the receiving system.)

Show threadLew PerinSep 20, 2021
@mhoye She.
Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀Sep 20, 2021

@mhoye

Sounds like a plan...

Show threadNice MicroNov 16, 2021
@mhoye I'd love this function, so when the calculator from the play store asks for my location it finds me going back and forth between Mt. Everest and the South pole.