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Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by genewitch on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:48AM (#28563244)
That's assuming they can dis-aggregate my traffic at the F5 gateway well enough[0], otherwise they're just saying all traffic out of that rack in Dallas, TX is invalid. A personal web browser clicking ads on pages i visit doesn't feel very fraudulent.

[0] google routinely can't, and i stopped using search because it made me do photo captchas every time. If google can't, i'm guessing other people are going to have less luck.

Re:The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your locat... by iamstupidsimple on Saturday September 18, 2021 @09:06AM (#28575937)
Being Captcha'd likey means that those systems know not to trust your clicks. I seriously doubt you're doing any damage here, and at worst you're helping the companies you dislike.