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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension wit... by appleflaxen on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:31AM (#24857276)
Even if I don't care about the morality/legality of it, I probably wouldn't bother. Google knows every profile and IP address I've ever used. It would be trivial for them to detect this, and close it down again. It's just not worth the effort.
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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension wit... by nullc on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:20PM (#24859716)
The irony is that the honest users won't expend a lot of effort evading, while the scummier users will (and have a much easier time of it, since they've done it 100 times before).

In this way anti-fraud filters sometimes act as pro-fraud filters: False positives kill honest use, and dishonest use finds a way.

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