Is there something that can generate random Internet usage to make the real sites I go to a bit obfuscated?

I’m thinking something that runs on my server, and simply visits a random website. It probably shouldn’t actually be random, and some sort of tweaking would be great. Like the ability to have it visit every news site there is. That way the ISP will have a harder time telling my political bias.

The threat model for this is below using a VPN for normal usage, although getting a dedicated VPN IP address is a project for one day.

  • GluWu@lemm.ee
    8·
    9 months ago

    It’d be pretty quick to write a script that loads a randomly selected url from a prepopulated list at random intervals. Could probably do it in grease monkey directly in Firefox so you could use other tools in addition like adnausium and a client spoofer.

      • HumanPersonEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        Turn on your browser history for a while then use that.

        • LWD@lemm.ee
          2·
          9 months ago

          chrome:site-engagement for a slightly more accessible list

      • GluWu@lemm.ee
        2·
        9 months ago

        Just start listing the most popular and generic sites. Then Google a topic like technology and copy whatever those sites are. I imagine you could have a pretty decent list populated in 15 minutes. You could also just ask chatgpt to create lists of the top 100 sites for “x”.

        What would write in? I might be willing to help because this interests me as well.

        • Dust0741@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          9 months ago

          That’s a good idea.

          Probably just a shell script. Someone mentioned using curl so that’d be pretty easy

          • GluWu@lemm.ee
            2·
            9 months ago

            Let me know if you start working on anything. I want to try to use greasemonkey, I haven’t in years.

            • Dust0741@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              8 months ago

              Little curl shell script that works:

              #!/bin/bash

# Random_Curl_Request.sh

# CSV file containing websites
CSV_FILE="/home/user/Documents/randomSiteVisitor/websites.csv"

# Get a random line from the CSV file
RANDOM_LINE=$(shuf -n 1 "$CSV_FILE")

# Extract the website URL from the random line
WEBSITE=$(echo $RANDOM_LINE | cut -d ',' -f 1)

# Make a curl request to the random website every minute
while true; do
    curl $WEBSITE
    sleep 60

    # Get a new random line from the CSV file
    RANDOM_LINE=$(shuf -n 1 "$CSV_FILE")

    # Extract the website URL from the new random line
    NEW_WEBSITE=$(echo $RANDOM_LINE | cut -d ',' -f 1)

    # Update the website URL for the next iteration
    WEBSITE=$NEW_WEBSITE
done