Obscuring Internet Tendencies

摘要

Disclosed herein are techniques for obscuring Internet tendencies. It is determined whether a user tends to access a category of information over the Internet more than an average user. If the user accesses the category of information over the Internet more than the average user, a user profile associated with the user is adjusted such that the user profile is proportional to an average user profile associated with the average user.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
at least one user profile, each user profile comprising a plurality of values, each value representing a tendency of a user to access a category of information over an Internet; an average user profile comprising a plurality of averages, each average representing an average tendency of a plurality of users to access the category of information over the Internet; a processor to:
determine whether a value of the plurality of values indicates that the user tends to access the category of information over the Internet more than the average tendency for the category of information; andif the value indicates that the user tends to access the category of information over the Internet more than the average, adjust each value in a user profile associated with the user such that each value is proportional to the average tendency for the category of information corresponding thereto in order to obscure the tendency of the user.