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by barbariangrunge 1043 days ago
I don’t know, you’ve never heard of blackmail? $500 in Bitcoin to some wallet or we leak your search results to your church group?
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suslik 1043 days ago
How would they connect search results to an individual? Surely, a simple VPN, which is a basic internet hygene these days, prevents that.
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ludwik 1043 days ago
That's what AOL thought when they released the anonymized search data of their users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release). Turns out they were very wrong.
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