I am not one of those people. However, I was thinking that instead of not sending data at all maybe I can send them some fake information about that will dilute the profile they have on me.
With Facebook, things seem easy, to like / visit some pages that are not in my interest.
With google / gmail / analytics however, this becomes pretty hard.
Thoughts?
Honestly I think that just minimization by using other services is probably the best tactic since meaningfully polluting the data probably is more trouble than it's worth.
Sidenote: It took a lot of will power not to make a witty remark about the misspelling in the title haha
Your "work self", with your company's email address has one google account. When you leave the company, discard the account and create a new one for your new job.
Your "social self" who keeps in touch with friends and family has a separate browser profile just for facebook. There may or may not be an extra google account to go with your personal email address.
Your "privacy-nerd self" uses a completely separate email address unknown to either colleagues, friends or family, and a separate browser profile again which is only used over a VPN.
With network namespaces, you can even simultaneously run multiple VPN sessions, one per browser profile ...
And since your identity is fragmented, it doesn't matter too much if you have to burn one. The risk of losing data is distributed over multiple accounts.