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Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen? IP address: * Time: 2016-06-10T00:07:58Z URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=donald%20trump It appears Google is not too happy with Donald Trump.
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonWTF/ (NSFW!!) I've heard people complain after being subscribed to that subreddit that Amazon's relevance engine becomes unusable for them (and while unsaid, I imagine they can't browse Amazon with anyone else at their computer). OP, take note. :P
I guess things are hard when you only have a single data-point to base recommendations off.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there really people that believe there's a possibility that they don't?
I'm no security expert, but I was under the impression that HSTS pinning would make that hard to do, especially on sites like google.com. And I can't quite parse your sentence to know if you're implying that all companies do... (or just that I shouldn't be so naive as to assume none are), but I can see the cert chain for google.com in my browser at ${big_company} and it doesn't seem like I'm being MITM'd.
Game Theory: If enough people click this, does Google stop showing stupid ads to everyone eventually?
in the reverse, it could fire the backup mechanism and start showing very generic ads.
Warning: people should know this is NSFW for anyone with a company that monitors your web usage. I also wouldn't run this from an authoritarian country where local officials may not appreciate the joke.