I was looking into creating a bot that would randomly click and browse around on the web whilst logged in to Google to add some entropy to my "persona".
Alas, programming is hard.
I don't know what it is--perhaps my get off my lawn mentality--but I am terrified of not owning my anonymity. Though obviously not scared enough to stop using these services...
Yes, would certainly be needing of some checks. Perhaps a dictionary of acceptable link-words that would be OK to "click". Maybe also a blacklist of "never-click" words and/or domains/netblocks.
Or even perhaps a whitelist of a few domains that are OK. Chances are slim that Time.com or USAtoday or CNN links would lead to trouble and the collection of "safe" links would grow exponentially with only a handful of "safe" domains.
Alas, programming is hard.
I don't know what it is--perhaps my get off my lawn mentality--but I am terrified of not owning my anonymity. Though obviously not scared enough to stop using these services...