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- Z4C_er
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I mean they are everywhere. Are they actually listed as members? How was this authorised? Was it voted for?
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They are not members. They are identified by their user agent token and are essential to get the good (and bad) content of this website into search engines
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Thanks for the reply. I'm becoming increasingly wary of this internet superpower. They seem to be infiltrating a lot of our lives.
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Just need a decent virus checkerZ4C_er wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:22 amThanks for the reply. I'm becoming increasingly wary of this internet superpower. They seem to be infiltrating a lot of our lives.
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yup, if you don't want your posts and photo's sharing on Google then post them on an private forum. This is a puplic forum when all said and done. I use the google search engine as much as the internal search engine when I'm looking for content on here. It's a great service on the whole.
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As everyone says, these are bots that crawl the site for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) purposes - feeding back to Google what's on here so you can find things by searching on Google - they're not going to take over the world so don't worry.
However if you do want to worry, Google shouldn't be your biggest concern - it should be Amazon
However if you do want to worry, Google shouldn't be your biggest concern - it should be Amazon
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Some web store operators pay G bots to crawl their site and list them on google. These bots will even go so far as to suggest key words for more search results.
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Have a read of Orwell’s book 1984 ... that’ll put the scarers on... I won’t have an Alexa in my house that’s for sure!!
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My Mrs keeps telling me to be nicer to our Alexa!!
Says 'you will regret it when they take over' !!
Realistically, owning a mobile phone, a computer, using the internet... It all reduces our actual privacy.
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