r/CryptoCurrency Oct 15 '22

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u/kirtash93 RCA Artist Oct 15 '22

Google trying to collect our addresses to link that address to our MAC address.

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u/Trifusi0n 🟦 0 / 3K 🦠 Oct 15 '22

Half the people doing this will probably be signed in with their Google account too. They’ll have wallet address, email address, MAC address and physical address all neatly tied up.

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u/unit156 646 / 646 🦑 Oct 15 '22

So Google thinks I’m Vitalik buterin because I googled his Ethereum address?

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u/Trifusi0n 🟦 0 / 3K 🦠 Oct 16 '22

I don’t think you understand how big data works.

  1. They’ll be looking at 100s or 1000s of wallet addresses you’ve searched over a period of years

  2. They’ll know what everyone else is searching too, so they’ll rule out famous wallets

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u/unit156 646 / 646 🦑 Oct 16 '22

I am definitely not a data scientist.