Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web

Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by cyberpunk on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:39PM (#26596663)

BA had some tracking request inline on the “payment processing” page which when blocked by my pihole prevents me from ever getting to the confirmation page, just have to refresh your email and wait for the best.

I have no idea how these companies, which make quite a decent amount of money at least up until 2020, can have such utterly poor sites.

I once counted some 20+ redirects on a single request during this process heh..

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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by bombcar on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:31PM (#26597196)

I don’t know what they’re doing but most every single sign on tool I’ve seen redirects 10-20 times during the sign on process (and then dumps you to the homepage to navigate your way back).

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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by merlinscholz on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:47PM (#26597359)

Probably to get first party cookies on a handful of domains

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