Fauxx
from ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 16 May 22:53
https://lemmy.world/post/46958370
from ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 16 May 22:53
https://lemmy.world/post/46958370
Fauxx is an open-source Android privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.
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but on the flip side, the scary movie series has become a delightful time capsule of the 90ās and 00ās because of it. lol
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This sounds great.
Oh wow!! You really went above and beyond! Any chance non coders get this on their phone? And does it need a local vpn connection? Or can I keep DuckDuckGo anti app tracking too?
Edit: thanks repliers
It looks like you can download the most recent apk here
github.com/digital-grease/fauxx/ā¦/v0.2.9
I just got it off F-Droid, dead easy to set up.
Holy shit this tool does way to much. My god
Right??!
The concept is very interesting, I used the app for a while but I donāt get one thing. Why would you want to randomize fingerprints? If the goal is to pollute your profile with random data then it does the exact opposite thing and makes it harder to assosiate the noise with actual user activity.
So much noise, youāre just that: noise. Itās all about statistics
yes, but when you spoof fingerprints the only thing connecting the noise generated by the app to the user is then the IP address and ironically the README recommends using it alongside a VPN to hide your IP, which means that the queries made by Fauxx are, like you said, ājust noiseā, not noise associated with your profile, the noise could as well be generated by any other device
also, I think that the extensive use of LLMs should be stated in the description, not burried in a closed issue, as it is an important matter especially when creating a privacy oriented project
Maybe it is because the data brokers will still identify you buy your device fingerprint even when using the vpn
Yep. They look at way more than your IP. The one I canāt tackle yet is window sizesā¦ I have asked a dev to see if he can slightly randomize new browser window sizes just for that. Otherwise I have a bunch of anti fingerprint extensions. And I often find myself unable to pass captchas or services because of it. But most of the time, that works. That and using a non-tracking search engine. I like presearch. And their browser on android supports extensions, just like Edge.
I like the way you think. That saidā¦ presearch.com/search?q=Browser+fingerprinting+tooā¦
Still, browser fingerprints are most commonly used and spoofing them seems counterproductive. If the goal is to maximize confusion about users interests and search history it should mimic actual usersā behavior as closely as possible.
Youāve lost me here Iām afraid. Care to elaborate?
ahh, sorry what I meant is that the app shouldnāt randomize identifiers, such as browser fingerprints or even cookies, because the goal is to make the noise associated with the userās profile, otherwise itās just random requests and it becomes pointless.
Yeahā¦ I think we are disagreeing here, and I donāt fully understand your point, or your point is wrong from my point of view :) āļø
Where would this be ran at device level or can it be ran at server router level to generate activity at full property/users level?
I would love to run this type of software in a container or on my router to spoof my entire home network data traffic. That would be awesome.
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The devās doing Cheās work
I hope not! But a proper Saintās work? Absolutely!
Fuck religion. Go away, liberal.
Fauxx isnāt responding for the last half hour when it started to query ad networks what they knew about me. I am using a vpn so maybe if itās querying that public IPā¦ It might get overloaded. I have a reasonably modern and beefy phone.
Update: and after closing it and starting it again the service starts as disabled, yet the app still crashes with a not responding warning. There is no time to even go into the settings.
Just found out they use Ai to code š so no womder it crashes. Yeah it crashed for me but seems fine now.
Alright Iāll try again with the next build
I also only had it crash the first time.
That said, it doesnāt seem to remain active.
Yeah keeps shuting off. I hope they fix that.
Any ELI5 on how to run this for someone that is a zero on Android code?
Edit: nvm found the app on F-droid and it just installed and now running it
Itās on fdroid
edit: oh you just edited it
Guess itās almost time to make the jump to all FOSS.
Yes 100% Join us.
this seems to be a heavily vibecoded project, the readme has at least one contradiction and weird statements and formatting.
I mean now is it clicking ads or is it not? and whatās the reason for including the ātech stackā?
This issue was raised on github, the dev admitted to using AI (but probably still underplayed itās role in the project) but closed the issue and didnāt bother to disclose it in the readme.
github.com/digital-grease/fauxx/issues/8
Yikes! Itās really not hard to be upfront about it. Or do these dweebs understand that nobody likes this bullshit?
As a software engineer who absolutely uses Claude for all his dumbass ideas, these ādevelopersā donāt know the difference between a toy app and something production ready. Maybe this will get people to start reading source code (like the issue you linked above) and understand what they are deploying way more.
It kind of looks good on paper, but this might single you on the other side of a spectrum. Say, now you are that weird user running Firefox on Android - you give out some data, but with adblock you donāt see majority of it. With this tools, you kind of poison the data, but you could still get singled out because the bad guys just have more money to spend.
No Iām using brave I only use firefox tor browser
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I use InVizible Pro
Another good one that has I2P
Sounds resource intensive
Not really, works fine on my google pixel 5a with LineageOS.