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>and used to seed uniqule URL's to targeted communities, they then monitor the traffic visiting those URLS.
You really don't understand the basics of networking do you?

Here's something that if you weren't just monitoring a bot would make you sit up and listen:
Virtually every "webpage" is a server which collects logs on every client (browser) that visits it. These logs can tell the admin of that server (the website owner or host) a lot about every client - their ip, they type of browser they're using, the OS they use some can even get hardware info...
All from just clicking a link. Archived or UNARCHIVED!
And while you're at it - ponder how a site that's users are supposedly "anonymous" can ban those users by IP?