This week, Congress voted to allow internet service providers to sell users’ web browsing histories, rolling back FCC rules passed under the Obama administration. Activists have already roundly criticized the vote as a win for a telecom industry eager to help sell targeted ads, but there’s one new idea on what users can do to fight back.

Built by technologist Dan Schultz, a tool called Internet Noise will send random searches through a browser window, introducing some chaos to the tracking and ad-profiling process. Just close your browser when you’re done, and the snapshot of your history should be a little less clear. When I gave it a shot, I got information on a Massachusetts…

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