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My understanding is that the whole point of this feature is to identify bad sites. It defeats the whole purpose of the feature if it identifies itself as a robo
by jm4 18y ago
My understanding is that the whole point of this feature is to identify bad sites. It defeats the whole purpose of the feature if it identifies itself as a robot and site owners can easily filter or redirect the traffic.
- jws 18y agoIt depends on the site. A non-malevolent site that has malware injected into its HTML will still be caught. The content won't get a chance to see the identification. A malevolent site can just track their mechanism and work around it, like not showing malware to IE6 users unless they ask for the content a second time in quick succession. (Might not work, I don't know if the AVG copy gets cached. One would hope it doesn't for the sake of sites that do browser sniffing.)
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