I mean, we know they can be used as evidence against you, but what if I was actually just chilling and watching Youtube videos at home? Can my spying piece of shit phone ironically save me? 🤔

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    22 hours ago

    I’ll point out that just having videos play without interacting with the site would get undermined pretty easily. But if you were actively tapping around and deliberately interacting with the site, you’d have a stronger case that you were actually at home.

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      20 hours ago

      Sure, but I don’t know how they’d get that data. Every tap likely isn’t stored. Still, I could write a script to fake it, and build a device to to it. It’s evidence, but it isn’t particularly strong.

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        9 hours ago

        Major systems like YouTube generate logs. Even your Mac or PC generates copious logs. Those logs / the info will be subpoenaed. It’s easy to tell if someone was interacting with a site when you contact the people who run it.

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          3 hours ago

          Yes, but not mouse movements. It’ll be things like then clicking on videos and page views. That can be automated easily.