If you're googling solutions around you're already not taking intellectual property seriously enough to care about what happens after you lift ideas around.
I think them being also patent farm has a role in it.
Approved dependencies had api doc linked so no need to Google these.
A concern, which I think is legit, is that it is quite easy for someone with a strong presence in search, web advertising, analytics and mobile to puzzle together what a company is investing in based on the aggregated research and web access from known locations
Maybe I live in a bubble, but the likes of Google/StackOverflow have been part and parcel of a developers toolbox for many years now.
And in any case I wonder how that is enforced. Eg, Someone goes home in the evening and visits github, learns a new trick and comes into the office the next day and implements it.
Yes, I’m not a plagiarist.
If you’re literally copying and pasting code snippets without attribution, you’re plagiarizing.
You’re also probably violating the OSS project’s license.
It’s no different than copying and pasting someone else’s sentence or paragraph into a written paper.