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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Sometimes even smart developers do evil things with your URIs. And Google badly messes up your URIs for click tracking purposes. 301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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