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My guess is to combat scrapers. They have been suing companies that scrape Google lately (they lost a recent one)
by AznHisoka 21d ago
My guess is to combat scrapers. They have been suing companies that scrape Google lately (they lost a recent one)
- hurfdurf 21d agoThe clear URLs are still in the site's source, though.
- exploraz 21d ago... for some reason (inside a script tag for me) It never got overwritten back to the original destination URL with the same browsing environment (see my other comment).
- AznHisoka 21d agoThat is an additional step for people who want to buy the scraped data though. They have to crawl the actual URLs to see what it points to