Noiszy is a plugin that creates meaningless web data by navigating your browser randomly around a list of sites, to confound tracking & personalization algorithms and burst filter bubbles.
Learn more about this project at noiszy.com and the Noiszy blog.
- By popular demand, we're going open source.
- This is my first open-source project, so helpful comments will be greatly appreciated.
As explained on the privacy page of noiszy.com, we are tracking Noiszy usage with Google Analytics. This lets me know how many people are using Noiszy, and how much data they're generating. I completely understand that some people will be bothered that Noiszy tracks anything, but the point of Noiszy is to create data, and to spur the conversation about what should then be done with that data. I believe that knowing amounts of data from Noiszy is useful and reasonable, and it's done transparently - so I stand behind this. Of course, debate is welcomed. At any rate, you'll find some GA snippets in the code.