Re:Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship
by lamontcg on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:55PM
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they probably need the query string for pagination and if you don't have it they redirect you with some javascript which you turning it off breaks. i don't think there's any grand conspiracy there.
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Re:Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship
by Arnavion on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:02PM
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Yes, I didn't claim they were doing it intentionally, just that the website's behavior is weird. That's why I said:
>I have no idea what they're doing in the backend.
The pagination theory doesn't make sense to me though. The relevant parameter is called "form", its actual value doesn't matter as long as it's non-empty, and surely a sane implementation would treat the lack of a page parameter as page 1 and not page whatever-the-stormtrooper-image-is-on.