Fauxx
Fauxx is an open-source Android privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.
github.com/digital-grease/faux…
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FauxLiving
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in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •same here, except that i'm learning that i'm losing touch enough with pop culture that i don't get the jokes from other newer movies like this.
but on the flip side, the scary movie series has become a delightful time capsule of the 90's and 00's because of it. lol
ArchsageRamases
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in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •crandlecan
in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •Oh wow!! You really went above and beyond! Any chance non coders get this on their phone? And does it need a local vpn connection? Or can I keep DuckDuckGo anti app tracking too?
Edit: thanks repliers
whosepoopisonmybuttocks
in reply to crandlecan • • •It looks like you can download the most recent apk here
github.com/digital-grease/faux…
Release Fauxx v0.2.9 · digital-grease/fauxx
GitHubmatelt
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in reply to crandlecan • • •yes, but when you spoof fingerprints the only thing connecting the noise generated by the app to the user is then the IP address and ironically the README recommends using it alongside a VPN to hide your IP, which means that the queries made by Fauxx are, like you said, "just noise", not noise associated with your profile, the noise could as well be generated by any other device
also, I think that the extensive use of LLMs should be stated in the description, not burried in a closed issue, as it is an important matter especially when creating a privacy oriented project
sem
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in reply to washington_irving • • •Browser fingerprinting tools - Presearch
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in reply to crandlecan • • •what I meant is that the app shouldn't randomize identifiers, such as browser fingerprints or even cookies, because the goal is to make the noise associated with the user's profile, otherwise it's just random requests and it becomes pointless.
crandlecan
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in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •Fauxx isn't responding for the last half hour when it started to query ad networks what they knew about me. I am using a vpn so maybe if it's querying that public IP... It might get overloaded. I have a reasonably modern and beefy phone.
Update: and after closing it and starting it again the service starts as disabled, yet the app still crashes with a not responding warning. There is no time to even go into the settings.
ArchsageRamases
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in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •I also only had it crash the first time.
That said, it doesn't seem to remain active.
ArchsageRamases
in reply to crandlecan • • •BehavioralClam
in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •Any ELI5 on how to run this for someone that is a zero on Android code?
Edit: nvm found the app on F-droid and it just installed and now running it
WhyJiffie
in reply to BehavioralClam • • •It's on fdroid
edit: oh you just edited it
WorldsDumbestMan
in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •ArchsageRamases
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in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •this seems to be a heavily vibecoded project, the readme has at least one contradiction and weird statements and formatting.
I mean now is it clicking ads or is it not? and what's the reason for including the "tech stack"?
washington_irving
in reply to WhyJiffie • • •This issue was raised on github, the dev admitted to using AI (but probably still underplayed it's role in the project) but closed the issue and didn't bother to disclose it in the readme.
github.com/digital-grease/faux…
Clarify use of LLMs
trn1ty (GitHub)traxex
in reply to washington_irving • • •Yikes! It’s really not hard to be upfront about it. Or do these dweebs understand that nobody likes this bullshit?
As a software engineer who absolutely uses Claude for all his dumbass ideas, these “developers” don’t know the difference between a toy app and something production ready. Maybe this will get people to start reading source code (like the issue you linked above) and understand what they are deploying way more.
utjebe
in reply to ArchsageRamases • • •Say, now you are that weird user running Firefox on Android - you give out some data, but with adblock you don't see majority of it. With this tools, you kind of poison the data, but you could still get singled out because the bad guys just have more money to spend.
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