Report bugs that don't actually exist. Keep reporting the same bug from different emails. Works especially well for apps.
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Oh fuck you, buddy. Lol I find it infuriating the amout of product and software bugs that get ignored and passed to every sequential generation that follows and you wanna pile on fake bugs. You're not my buddy, pal.
luigi had an idea
Do not use actual names, birthdays, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, etc. There's no reason they need to know that info and I love/hate seeing physical mail and email show up with my made up info. Doesn't work when paying for stuff though.
If anyone has one specifically for airlines, I'd love to hear it! Got plenty of time to read the comments with my cancelled flight
Start Self hosting. Keeping my data at home is how I'm sticking it to the man these days.
he doesn't rename low res episodes of the golden girls to "tax return[year].docx" and hide them in plain sight.
If someone stoles the data then the corp can't be trusted. Punishment: erase ALL records from ALL of their databases and forbid that corp to take data for at least one year. The time would depend on the severity of the leak. If the leak if catastrophic, 10 years minimum.
Stop using as many services as possible. It might not be funny but, I mean, what if you went to a music store and bought used CDs instead of using Spotify? Do all of that you can.
Use bots to apply for the open positions to waste time. Reject them all for not enough pay.
Post public info of the CEO class
Piracy
Give fake data when using all services.
Start and join boycott groups.
Use their social media against them. Eg post their dirty laundry as a comment on their post.
Edit: whoops, I missed the "il" part in "not illegal". Anyway you should definitely not do the following. Allegedly doing the following would be arson, and society frowns upon such things.
Easy:
- Identify company
- Wait until it's a weekend night. We're not after the wage slaves after all.
- Mix polystyrene and gasoline. Remember that gasoline can melt some plastics, so if using a plastic container for mixing do a test first. You do not want napalm all over the place.
- Fill the gooey substance in glass bottles.
- Cap the bottles. (see #7)
- Drive to the company.
- Open bottles and put wicks in them. (important not to do this earlier. Driving with open gasoline containers in your car will make you drowsy and is a fire hazard)
- If you haven't already got gloves on, put them on and wipe down the bottles - you may have to leave some at some point.
- Have accomplices trigger fire alarms all over the local fire department's district. Either automatic fire alarms will be discarded for a bit or the marshall will be tied up investigating.
- Light a wick, throw the bottle at the company, try to get it to break a window.
- If you're out of bottles or you see blue lights cheese it. Otherwise go back a step and repeat it.
I heard you should mix the gasoline with diesel for more mileage.
Soap shavings
If a company is publicly traded, then all leaked individuals are given 50.1% controlling stock in the company, split among the victims with new stocks created for them, with unclaimed stocks held in a trust controlled by anyone that did respond to claim stocks. They can sell the stocks, or drive the company into the ground out of spite. Maybe even both.
Companies not publicly traded have 3 months to make all code used, trademarked material, and patents open source in perpetuity, and 1 year to convert their corporate structure into a non-profit.
Regardless of the size of the company, the CEO, CTO, and board must eat their weight in fried bugs. They get to pick the type of bug from a list of 5 options, and any seasoning they want. Live streams of the bug eating will be monetized and the proceeds given to orphans, under the title of "It's not a bug, its a feature."
Don't use their services.
The fake name generator might be useful. There are also temporary email services for when a site account requires a confirmed email.
Sounds like it does the opposite of what OP wants:
I stopped counting after 2000+ vendors
Well, crap. So goes enshittification.
Nice
Sign someone up for Scientology
Not exactly what you're looking for, but Ad-Nauseum is a nice way to inject a ton of garbage into the data corps collect.
I played around with this some time ago, until I thought more about it: using tools like this makes adtech money.
Adtech doesn't care if you're interested in X or Y, just that they can charge the advertiser for it. By injecting fake traffic, they're getting more data to sell.
Make your data useless or wrong.
More passively, there's probably an oddly large amount of John Does born on January 1, 2000 ;)
More offensively, anti-image-gen data poisoning such as Nightshade exists. It's well-defended against IIRC so hopefully someone can Cunningham's Law correct me. And this is also more solo of a movement (as opposed to gaining mass support for something)
Every "big data" data source I have ever worked with is already filled to the brim with low-quality, obviously wrong data. I have to think that is also true of the data scraped or collected by the big companies. I don't think it matters that the personal data they collect is wrong, so long as they can convince ad buyers that it is accurate.
As others have said, the best instances of direct action are illegal.
If you send back one of those reply mail envelopes it costs them money. Stuff those envelopes with junk and send them back.
I don't get many of them anymore, but when I do, I mail them back with a little slip of paper inside that says "poop".
This brings me so much joy.
But not a brick. They are apparently onto that.
I tried the brick once long ago. 1) No way to verif it works (not just PO's the P.O. 2) That kind of shit may be why so many public POBoxes have been removed. 3) The was of paper (up to 3.5 oz?) -seems- to have worked.
First class letter mail is up to 3.5 oz and within a certain l thickness. Every ounce costs extra over the first oz (idk about commercial return mail pricing) just stuff it with flat cardboard from cereal boxes or fill out the information wrong and put in a competitors corporate address.
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