It gives a few examples of use cases where protection against these are not necessary. This is one of my pet peeves too and I agree with the author. Though if y

It gives a few examples of use cases where protection against these are not necessary. This is one of my pet peeves too and I agree with the author. Though if you want google to list and rank you, you have to have it. (This might have changed. Google doesn't do anything for long.) As a side effect of the push for https, local web log analysis is basically worthless nowadays. This might be why google pushed it so heavily.