Advice Request Internet Noise Filter

[ravenosky]

A friend on Facebook shared a post from uberfacts. It says:

On March 28th, 2017 Congress passed a law making it legal for your Internet Service Providers (ISP) to track and sell your personal activity online. Meaning the things you search for, buy, read, and say can be collected by corporations and possibly be used against you. Internet Noise is a site that will passively load random sites in browser tabs that you can leave running to fill their databases with 'noise'.

Now this seems suspiciously like a passive aggressive scare tactic to get people to download something that might be adware or something malicious to their computer and actually steal their information. Any insight on this so called filter?

 

[Deleted member 178]

I won't even think to use this.

 

[Arequire]

A pointless endeavor. Uses obfuscation to essentially mask your actual browsing history in a flood of random sites and searches. It simply wouldn't work and there's much better ways to protect yourself:
Here’s How to Protect Your Privacy From Your Internet Service Provider

 

[ravenosky]

I don't really care myself. I just want to know about the site UberFacts is apparently trying to promote. Is this legit or is it a possible malware that people who follow this page on Facebook and believe it all will ultimately be actively adding to their computer.

 

[Arequire]

I don't really care myself. I just want to know about the site UberFacts is apparently trying to promote. Is this legit or is it a possible malware that people who follow this page on Facebook and believe it all will ultimately be actively adding to their computer.

It's a website not a program so it's definitely not malware and the site itself is safe. It could in theory open an infected webpage but it's highly unlikely. It could also [in theory] open a string of searches that could get you flagged for monitoring by your government but that's also extremely unlikely.