&gt; It&#x27;s physically impossible for this to be malicious.<p>It&#x27;s &quot;physically impossible for Google to read the IP header addresses if the pack data contains &quot;&amp;aip=1&quot;? The IP is still logged with Google, according to their own documentation[1]:<p><pre><code>    When present, the IP address of the sender will be anonymized.
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So-called &quot;anonymized&quot; data can be re-correlated with the original values. DJB&#x27;s gave a great description[2] of this problem, right after he started working for Verizon[3]:<p><pre><code>    Hashing is magic crypto pixie-dust, which takes personally identifiable
    information and makes it incomprehensible to the marketing department.
    When a marketing person looks at random letters and numbers they have no
    idea what it means. They can&#x27;t imagine that anybody could possibly
    understand the information, reverse the hash, correlate the hashes, track
    them, save them, record them. 
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[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;analytics&#x2F;devguides&#x2F;collection&#x2F;protocol&#x2F;v1&#x2F;parameters#aip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;analytics&#x2F;devguides&#x2F;collection...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projectbullrun.org&#x2F;surveillance&#x2F;2015&#x2F;video-2015.html#bernstein" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projectbullrun.org&#x2F;surveillance&#x2F;2015&#x2F;video-2015.html...</a><p>[3] If you don&#x27;t believe that DJB works for Verizon, ask the man in the middle... who may have been making an elaborate joke.