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There are countless examples of "technically impossible" requests on the daily wtf and clients from hell. A good example is when the client wants you (or your software) to do something that involves access to other companies' infrastructure or to every computer in the world. For example, "make our website the default homepage for everyone." or "remove our competitors' links on Google."

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Your examples sound rather easy, relatively speaking, to accomplish technically, but are certainly legally dubious. In fact, it seems most things that are "technically impossible" come down to social issues and not technical issues at all.

Technically and legally / morally acceptable and simple. The financial cost however would be unimaginably spectacular. Simply buy your competitors and shut them down, and create a simple 1e8 price range deal with some well known browser devs to make your page the home page.

Lack of communications ability could be an issue. Oh you didn't REALLY mean everyone's computer in the world you just meant in this office. Oh you mean the top adwords link on google not search results. Well...

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