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.

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    8 months ago

    That’s a good idea.

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

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      8 months ago

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

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        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