Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It

rmadriz 53 points 18 comments June 14, 2026
blog.digitalgrease.dev · View on Hacker News

Discussion Highlights (7 comments)

TheChaplain

Not often you encounter a site that makes scrolling choppy.

gruez

Wasn't there a startup that basically did this, but instead of for privacy purposes, it was for creating fake influencer profiles you could use for marketing campaigns? This project feels like a great way to get your accounts banned from various platforms, because this is basically doing that, and platforms have at least a vague interest in banning such things. It tries to hide itself, but doesn't do a good job at it. MockLocationProvider can be easily detected, and so can UA/canvas spoofing. All of this basically screams "I'm running a bot farm", so expect it to be first in line when sites want to do a bot crackdown.

initramfs

https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html more lightweight than this anvil

manithree

I like the idea (hate the site), but what does it do to my battery life?

tsol

This is a cool idea, I like it.

Esophagus4

Similar idea: https://adnauseam.io/

waterTanuki

I've been telling people since 2018 that any and all attempts to "hide" from data collection is a pointless endeavor unless you're willing to live solo out in the woods. The future of privacy rests in poisoning the well of information about yourself, which is why I regularly and randomly make google searches for things I have no interest in and places I will never go or haven't been, prompts for topics pulled out of a hat, and shopping sites for things I don't want or need.

Semantic search powered by Rivestack pgvector
10,500 stories · 98,695 chunks indexed