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I wonder if there's any way to cause an oversupply of ad information and tracking so data itself would become useless? I'm not sure if I'm making sense, but was thinking in terms of supply and demand. If everyone's data is available for free and everywhere, would that anyhow affect the ad-tech companies?

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For your own advertising there's: https://adnauseam.io/

Right, that's mostly for making your data useless, but what I was thinking is like the opposite. Over-supply of real "valuable" data so its value and ad-tech that makes money on tracking becomes semi useless. I have no idea how it would work, just a post-very-heavy-dinner thought.

It would kill data brokerage and move the profits to advertisers. It would increase targeted advertising. It might make products cheaper by making ads cheaper, but would probably just lead to more advertising.

Selling all the data for $0 does the opposite of what you want. The data is still useful, you're just making it cheaper to acquire.

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