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AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet
Slimy anti-virus provider AVG is spamming the internet with deceptive traffic pretending to be Internet Explorer. Essentially, users of the software automatically pre-crawl search results, which is bad, but they do so with an intentionally generic user agent. This is flooding websites with meaningless traffic (on Slashdot, we're seeing them as like 6% of our page traffic now). Best of all, they change their UA to avoid being filtered by websites who are seeing massive increases in bandwidth from worthless robots.
Everybody knows that web stats are worthless. And if people want to keep their bandwidth low they should clean up their sites. I for one welcome our... etc.
I honestly like, do not recall like the last time I like, saw someone use 'like' in that long standing improper way in like text, it's always like, been for me, like only something a person like, verbalizes.
stfu. no one thinks you're smart.
In Soviet Googlestan, agents fake YOU!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Death star is the only really sure-fire way.
Thank God for evolution.
Sweet, a helpful astroturfer. How much do they pay you to astroturf? Is that your primary job function or are you unofficially a part of Damage Control?
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one of the many reasons I ditched Windows a long time ago. Pony up for garbage or juggle the free garbage until they eventually turn their webpage into a "hide and seek, click here there and everywhere to find the free version in the maze of links" and ugly mutant versions of what once was a beautiful product.
do yourself a favor, save time by switching to Linux (to use online) and dual boot to a Windows install if you need to with the internet disabled, redirected to a non existant proxy address, you'll thank yourself in time and money.