> clearly not true because it never happened to me personally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

Here's one of several emails they've sent me over the years, each one happening right after running "ipfs daemon": https://0x0.st/Kryd.png

There's lots of other easily-searchable accounts of people having the exact same experience:

https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/4343

https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/moved-ipfs-node-result-netscan-d...

https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/3982

https://github.com/filecoin-project/lassie/issues/121

https://github.com/covalenthq/refiner/issues/140