The snoop group known originally as Phorm but now in their polished turd form operating under the name of Webwise blatantly tries to prevent web site owners from blocking them from intercepting communications without lawful consent.
Their robots.txt examples don't just ignore proper syntax and formatting, they also don't specify their User-agent's name, saying that you can only block their spy-ware if you block Google, Yahoo or every User-agent. To an ordinary person that's an admission that they have something to hide.
Well not quite. But under the hood. As Wikia's search had to admit being utterly unusable and a search engine isn't something one writes in an afternoon, they replaced what little technology there was with Yahoo's BOSS. As Seth noticed, some people can be fooled.
Not cute at all. I forgot to copy some files from a development machine to this web server, causing the button generator to fail for three button set and language combinations. My apologies.
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