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		nitwit005 on April 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit is taking over Google In the past Google just requested the HTML, and didn't bother with the javascript, so it was a simple document request. People started serving up pages that required Javascript to show content, so they had cope with that. I'm sure it's dramatically more expensive for them as well.

pwdisswordfishc on April 18, 2024 [–]

As long as it’s prohibitively expensive for their competition, I’m sure they don’t mind.

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