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In the US, the query "where to buy guns" seems perfectly legitimate.
Not if you also query "How to kill someone hypothetically" shortly before/after.
i've been planning on switching off of google products soon, towards fastmail, but haven't gotten the right domain name yet.
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(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) It's just displaying this: https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=5&nco...
Oh nice... but it wasn't that in 2009.. and there were some potentially embarrassing search terms display, scrolling past.. but sure, it was probably filtered at some point.
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Not if you also query "How to kill someone hypothetically" shortly before/after.
Reputable gun shops offer ammunition whose primary selling point is its ability to kill humans. I mention this as a relevant aside: in the US, it is (very possibly) even legitimate to search something like "ammunition best suited to kill someone".
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Not if you also query "How to kill someone hypothetically" shortly before/after.
Reputable gun shops offer ammunition whose primary selling point is its ability to kill humans. I mention this as a relevant aside: in the US, it is (very possibly) even legitimate to search something like "ammunition best suited to kill someone".
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Could it simply be the speed with which the queries are made, making a bot-blocker suspect a bot? Edit: apologies, meant to reply to OP, not here. To parent, I already upvote your comment - it's pretty cool, but also scary that we now have conversations about whether we're being surveiled by our government (in the US) as a casual normality. The only difference that appears to remain is that we openly talk about our g…
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) One might describe it as a social botnet: somebody convinced a bunch of people to execute some code on their computer that sent automated search queries. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66357?hl=en "Google's Terms of Service do not allow the sending of automated queries of any sort to our system without express pe…
I think anyone who wants the ability to obscure their search footprint should have it. And if you think otherwise, I'm doubly convinced it's necessary.