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Google being a little removed and saying it "detected abnormal traffic coming from my IP" (I was googling something I google often) was my last straw, which ultimately led to me being here and degoogling.
In some cases, providers group multiple end users under one public-facing IP and do some address translation magic to sort out what goes where. Kind of like your whole neighbourhood having a single shared address and a central post office sorting mail into internal post boxes.
So that "abnormal traffic" might not have been you personally. It could have been some other background process on your computer, or it could have been someone in your vicinity.
Or their heuristics are spewing shit, who knows. Degoogling isn't a bad idea, at the end of the day.