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If a search engine needs cookies to operate, its neither private nor something for me.
by xnacly 4y ago
If a search engine needs cookies to operate, its neither private nor something for me.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoA tricky problem all search engines face, regardless of scale and popularity, is dealing with bot spam, of which there is a lot [1]. It's not uncommon to face quarter of a million bot-searches per day and it's really difficult to actually combat since they're on a botnet, without some sort of privacy invasion, either via cookies or something like cloudflare. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395231 (I can attest to this pattern as well through my search engine)