Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic

Re:Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic by rkeene2 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @09:47AM (#16324697)

Stallman would probably use GNU wget which is licensed under the terms of the GPL, while curl is licensed under a license derived from MIT/X consortium.

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Re:Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic by jameskegel on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @09:53AM (#16324741)

He would probably have someone print it for him, similar to his email queue. I email him from time to time and his disclaimer says this.

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Re:Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic by M_Bakhtiari on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:53AM (#16325247)

I've never heard him say anything bad about running MIT licensed software.

On the other hand, I think I've read a FAQ where he says he views web pages by having a script fetch the pages with wget and them emailing them to him, but I'm pretty sure that's simply because wget is free and does the job (being able to recursively download the necessary resources), not because it's GPL licensed.

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Re:Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic by kbenson on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:35AM (#16325619)

Obviously Stallman is modifying his wget user agent to show curl just to prevent fingerprinting him accurately... ;)

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