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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    17 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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      6 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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        24 minutes ago

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