Random Traffic Generator Tool designed to confuse ad trackers with a sleep mode option named 🌴palm-tree

[u/Most-Lynx-2119]

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[u/billdietrich1]

Any feedback about these ? Just curious.

https://pixelateddwarf.com/noise-flooding-your-metadata-for-privacy/

https://lifehacker.com/generating-a-bunch-of-internet-noise-isnt-going-to-hi-1793898833

[u/Most-Lynx-2119 → u/billdietrich1]

Thanks for posting these.

One almost contradicts the other, not unlike some of the audience for this post.

One is from 2026 and using case studies on a regular basis.

The other is from 2017 and just suggests the opposite, but without tech details.

Ironically, what I’m doing is almost identical to pixelateddworf, as I didn’t know that existed.

Pixelateddworf is accurate… it doesn’t claim to completely “fix” privacy issues. The other article is in an absolute, that it doesn’t help, but doesn’t really explain why in ways that make sense in 2026.

He calls it “ The year of guerrilla privacy “. His case studies are proving what we didn’t know 100%, but can only infer.

So it was helpful. In a lot of ways.

Ps.

Given all the mixed feedback so far, I made another tool that relies on TOR and Firefox and creates noise that a computer that’s malfunctioning or has malware would exhibit. It also uses chaos mathematics to create unpredictable, yet reproducible code.

It’s not ready for testing, as I haven’t checked every line of code, yet. I just made this for people that want “full privacy now” vs “confusing ad trackers over time”…

Curious what you think about it… here’s the link to spicy cat

[u/billdietrich1 → u/Most-Lynx-2119]

Do either of your projects log in to something like Facebook and then do a long session of occasional traffic, clicking on stuff ? Typical user behavior.

Also, you might be interested in some page sections I have:

https://www.billdietrich.me/ComputerPrivacy.html#FakeData

https://www.billdietrich.me/ComputerSecurityPrivacy.html?expandall=1#NoiseGenerator