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> Each client receives different content (at some level).

Exactly, and now imagine how easy it is for someone motivated and with the right resources to meddle with that.

Similarly, it's hard to prove a machine was used by its user to consciously navigate to an illegal link. There's too much automatism on the web and on networked machines, plus if we consider link shorteners, there are too many explanations against that would not allow admitting evidence like machine-x-owned-by-mike-miller-accessed-mp3forfree-artist-album-2016.pdf.

It's the equivalent of me walking in a street where I didn't know drugs or weapons or humans were sold, and being arrested for just walking through there. In real life you have some clues where not to go, especially if you're from the town, but on the internet it's too easy to have your machine load a random illegal link or search alarming terms on Google without your consent.




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