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[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because you can prove it by monitoring network requests with a packet sniffer, which has been done.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I haven’t seen this myself but it wouldn’t really surprise me.

[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a standard tactic for people who do networking things

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah. I work in that general field but not at the user level like that so never got into packet sniffing. Now’s as good a time as ever eh?