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"We're sending data to your computer but you mustn't look! Promise!" I'm not sure how the addon worked, if there's some trickery going on, but I'm long waiting
by nothis 8y ago
"We're sending data to your computer but you mustn't look! Promise!"
I'm not sure how the addon worked, if there's some trickery going on, but I'm long waiting for a lawsuit against ad blockers that could get heated.
- jeremyjh 8y agoThis has nothing to do with ad blockers, or indeed advertising at all. The way it works is they set the user-agent to one used by search engines. The website thinks you are Google, so they give you the content for free because they want Google to index their proprietary content.
- mathnmusic 8y agoHow long before Google switches to digitally signed crawling requests?