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		smegel on Sept 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ... Coming weeks after headless Chrome is released, wonder if there is a connection.

borplk on Sept 10, 2017 [–]

Not sure what you mean. Google using Chrome headless for crawling? I'm sure their crawling infrastructure was already more than capable.

smegel on Sept 10, 2017 | [–]

How else would they detect popups?

borplk on Sept 10, 2017 | | [–]

I'm sure by now Google wouldn't need Chrome headless to be released for them to have that capability.

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