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Yeah, sure (sarcastic). And people mostly use torrents to share Linux distros.

The site/org has no office and is anonymously run virtually. Exists on random, essentially free for all TLDs, does not honour take-down requests, does not respect robots.txt, masquerades as the Googlebot...

...yeah, I happen to have not been born yesterday so I'm not going to play along with a fiction.

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Nothing you said contradicts the post you responded to, so there's no need to be rude (e.g. sarcasm) or adversarial here. You are both correct.

Nothing I said was rude or adversarial, so not sure why you decided to be rude and adversarial here.

My sarcasm was to the purported original goal, when it has always, since day one, been a fake Googlebot known, again since day 1, as a circumvention of paywalls for sites that cloak.

well if you declare that nothing you said was rude (i.e. no sarcasm, which is rude) or adversarial, then I similarly declare that nothing I said claimed otherwise :) so what are you talking about, then?

That’s nice. I’m still not giving the NYT my email or a dime.

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