So, I’ve been on Lemmy since the great Reddit exodus a couple years ago, and back on Reddit though, there were discussions on Data Poisoning, where since it was nigh unto impossible to keep your data private, people would poison their data with all sorts of extraneous information, so companies couldn’t tell what data was accurate and what wasn’t.
But, here on Lemmy, I haven’t seen any discussions about the topic. Are people still poisoning their data? Why haven’t I seen any discussions about it? Is it still discussed, just not on the instances I’ve seen?
Oh. Could be. Doesn’t make senses to me to poison the platform you’re on, though. I do see a few folks who delete their stuff over a certain age, though.
I remember something about a plugin that would just flood your tracking data with random garbage. I know nothing about the data processing, but it makes sense to me that if a tracker is expecting 1.5MB of information per visitor and is now getting 20MB of random crap, they would struggle to figure out anything meaningful.