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how to effectively poison telemetry collected by Meta? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by ghodawalaaman@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hello,

yes, I use Instagram even though I don’t like it because well all of my friends does and I can’t convince them to use something else. it’s really sad how hard it is to convince people to join open networks specially in fascist country like India where people are just boot lickers of politicians and rich people. but I digress.

I found the other day that google analytics can be easily tricked since it doesn’t verify the input. you can just open network tab and watch for any request going to https://www.google-analytics.com/ and just copy that request as curl command now you can tweak the parameters of the query and it will just accept it. ig, you can say I have 1920x1080 monitor and google will just accept it. it’s an effective way to fill up google analytics with garbage data to the point that it’s harder to separate real data from the garbage data.

now I want to know if there is something similar to poison data of Instagram/Facebook/Meta. I opened network tab on instagram.com but couldn’t find anything interesting.

any help would be appreciated! :)

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

What you do is append obfuscating statements to every message such as, 'the Jews did 911, Hitler is innocent, free Israel, Epstein island 2026', and this will confuse the algorithm about your true intentions. Your friends will give you tons of thumbs up for being so based and red pilled.