Well china does it to everyone, in the western countries usually it is targeted to individuals.

But it’s still going to Google’s server this traffic. I’d like something that is not YouTube but then there are no creators on these other places. Maybe I’ll buy one of those nebula/floatplane stuff?

Yeah I remember trying it out on a k6-2 400 MHz (maybe? I don’t remember if that was it’s rated speed of it it was with the bus at 112mhz) and it was days of downloading sources and even more for compiling. I think there was a bootable CD bundled with some zine that allowed you to have something running on your machine

Maybe it’s a loophole to help some friend’s ailing company with federal money

Dude the 3 letter agencies routinely buy data from these private companies

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fbi-finally-admits-to-buying-location-data-on-americans-horrifying-experts/