sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn't say anything about them not being allowed, but I don't see anybody posting any 🤷♀️
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Let them be the fodder for the authorities
It's the other way around, torrents are monitored, downloads on webpages are not (unless they use P2P streaming)
the magic word here is "HTTPS". Prior to encrypted downloads being the norm, it was trivial for your ISP (and presumably, the feds) to see what sites you were visiting and what you downloaded from them. With HTTPS, at best it's possible to know what site you're communicating with and how much data you've sent to and received from them, but not what the data actually is. (Unless of course the site's logs get seized, which could contain records of which files were requested by which IP addresses)