A couple years ago, I was joking about wanting to develop an app that acted on the users behalf as an algorithmic chaff generator. It would act as the user's avatar, and crawl around the internet in a completely random fashion, scrolling and stopping with total unpredictability, making micropurchases and returning them, focusing on some things, bypassing others, and never stopping. Ideally, this randomized browsing would be so pervasive and constant that it would mask the user's actual browsing, thus rendering the collectible data about the user effectively useless.
July 1, 2025, 7:28 a.m. - Mike Ferrentino
A couple years ago, I was joking about wanting to develop an app that acted on the users behalf as an algorithmic chaff generator. It would act as the user's avatar, and crawl around the internet in a completely random fashion, scrolling and stopping with total unpredictability, making micropurchases and returning them, focusing on some things, bypassing others, and never stopping. Ideally, this randomized browsing would be so pervasive and constant that it would mask the user's actual browsing, thus rendering the collectible data about the user effectively useless.