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Re:Protecting user identity against Silhouette by VirenM on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:29PM (#18021476)
Another reason for the redirect would be to mitigate the relentless web scraping which occurs. Some people just don't want to connect their apps with keys.
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Re:Protecting user identity against Silhouette by Rjevski on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:53AM (#18023505)
Any malicious scraper can defuse this by sending the proper referrer header.
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