this is a good idea, but i think i’d rather be generic than what they think i am now. well… i need to consider. the identity i have tied to my current address and name that i assume they actually think is me, they also think is a radiation oncologist for some reason, which (i think) is the cancer MD who does the actual radiation treatment. that identity makes (or should make) far, far more money than i do. what the fuck, me. way to drop the ball. [just as a note, the algorithm thinks this because i did a shitton of medical research myself, like i was deeply involved in medical education so i got a med school curriculum and syllabi and textbooks and educated myself so i could better explain myself in exhaustive and exhausting technical language to the MDs i was having to educate. why a radiation oncologist specifically? fuck if i know. WAIT I KNOW it’s because of that week i was radioactive] the algorithm thinking i am a fancy rich doctor might help me buy a house.
the problem is, corporations like Google or Apple, depending on which mobile phone you use, already know everything about you. they know your age, your preferred gender identity, and where you live. that alone is enough for them to make very good guesses at the kinds of things you would be interested in. but the information they have on you goes much further than that.
trying to poison the well just through a single browser extension doesn’t do anything to change the data they have on you. especially since you can’t poison all the data they’re collecting on you. that extension might not even work on mobile, and even if it does, most of the information they collect doesn’t come through your browsing habits, it comes from the things you do in the apps you use.
It does seem like an idea that could be improved on, I would love a poisoning the well extension or even browser mode.
this is a good idea, but i think i’d rather be generic than what they think i am now. well… i need to consider. the identity i have tied to my current address and name that i assume they actually think is me, they also think is a radiation oncologist for some reason, which (i think) is the cancer MD who does the actual radiation treatment. that identity makes (or should make) far, far more money than i do. what the fuck, me. way to drop the ball. [just as a note, the algorithm thinks this because i did a shitton of medical research myself, like i was deeply involved in medical education so i got a med school curriculum and syllabi and textbooks and educated myself so i could better explain myself in exhaustive and exhausting technical language to the MDs i was having to educate. why a radiation oncologist specifically? fuck if i know. WAIT I KNOW it’s because of that week i was radioactive] the algorithm thinking i am a fancy rich doctor might help me buy a house.
the problem is, corporations like Google or Apple, depending on which mobile phone you use, already know everything about you. they know your age, your preferred gender identity, and where you live. that alone is enough for them to make very good guesses at the kinds of things you would be interested in. but the information they have on you goes much further than that.
trying to poison the well just through a single browser extension doesn’t do anything to change the data they have on you. especially since you can’t poison all the data they’re collecting on you. that extension might not even work on mobile, and even if it does, most of the information they collect doesn’t come through your browsing habits, it comes from the things you do in the apps you use.