What's This Google Robot Shit?
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Every last drop getting slurped up haha they're gonna study our posts and then the robots can learn to shoot real good and waste us all
I honestly had no fricking idea. I thought I was really on to something. Then again, I missed the boat when Microsoft went IPO.
I missed the boat when Microsoft went IPO.
If you can remember that, you really are old....... (welcome to the club, your membership card is in the mail.....)
AJ, your first “iPad” was slate and a charred stick.
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I honestly had no fricking idea. I thought I was really on to something. Then again, I missed the boat when Microsoft went IPO.
Dastardly little bastards. Google is fairly polite, but Micro$oft harvests links and context from their browsers. Got into a bit of a pickle one time because the Bing bot would pass valid query strings and headers to an API that generated phone calls to people..... in the middle of the night.
That's just plain mean man. Funny, but mean.
Data Mining. Who'd duh thunk?
It's also called a "spider." Sites typically want to be found and try to come up on the first page of search results. And crawling websites allows you to type "Maser" and "diaper" and come up with 00Pissy in all his glory:
It's also how we continually chum snide little tags like "Midget porn rocks," Jimmy, so be somewhat thankful for this double-edged sword.
I use an extension in the browser called Disconnect. It blocks trackers. If you start a browser session and move from site to site, you can see how many try to follow you everywhere you go. Facebook and Google are the most persistent and prevalent by far. They are clingers.
Request Denied...
snipershide.com
forum.snipershide.com
googletagmanager.com
www.googletagmanager.com
gstatic.com
encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com
imgur.com
i.imgur.com
servedbyadbutler.com
snipershide.com
forum.snipershide.com
googletagmanager.com
www.googletagmanager.com
gstatic.com
encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com
imgur.com
i.imgur.com
servedbyadbutler.com
Those "robots" are what's known as crawlers. Some sites refer to them as spiders. Basically what they are is programs that browse websites and recognize email addresses, home/business addresses, phone numbers, etc. and use that information to sell to advertisers. Lots of content creators on YouTube who are also active on FaceBook or Twitter have been getting bombarded with those crawlers as of late to sell their information to MCNs to get their business.
Boy wonder has trackers and robots mixed up.
Robots crawl sites and index content. That's how the latest threads show up in Google searches with relevant terms.
Trackers are loaded when you visit a site and then go to another place, logging your activities. They claim it's all metadata, which means that there is nothing being kept that could be personally linked to you. You're just user X doing this and that, and the information recorded is used to improve ad relevance, etc. They say.
Robots crawl sites and index content. That's how the latest threads show up in Google searches with relevant terms.
Trackers are loaded when you visit a site and then go to another place, logging your activities. They claim it's all metadata, which means that there is nothing being kept that could be personally linked to you. You're just user X doing this and that, and the information recorded is used to improve ad relevance, etc. They say.
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