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Glad to see a kindred soul out there. I thought I was the only one :)

Generalizing over the same idea, I believe that whenever you are asked for information about yourself you should volunteer wrong information. Female instead of male, single instead of married etc. Resistance through differential privacy

I've lived in 90210 since webforms started asking.

ASL?

69/f/cali

My email address is no@never.com. I’ve actually seen some forms reject it though

High-five, having forever used some permutation of something like naaah@nope.net, etc.

Back when recaptcha was catching on there was a 4chan campaign to associate words with "penis". They gathered together, used to successfully brigading polls of a few thousand, and went at it.

Someone asked the recaptcha guys and they said the traffic was so little among the total that it got diluted away. No lasting penis words arose and they lost interest.

I do this unintentionally on a regular basis.