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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:29AM (#28152333)
You are the product. Their goal is to generate revenue with ads and links to their paying customers on the results page. Giving you precise results works against this objective.
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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by xbmcuser on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:08AM (#28153007)
no you are an edge case the rest of the world ie non tech users prefer the way google understands the queries and answers them.
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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by Cipater on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:01AM (#28153432)
The word "prefers" implies that the choice was made after evaluating other options.

The word you should use is "accepts".

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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by sanitycheck on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:11AM (#28154788)
The rest of the world clicks on more ads this way. I believe that's their most important metric.
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