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What are all the spiders here to do?
« on: October 23, 2018, 10:19:40 am »
There are spiders in the userlist, so I spied on those spiders with the "Who's Online" tab and found they're viewing many various boards and topics. They have the names "Google" and "Baidu". What exactly are the spiders, and what are the spiders here to do?
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Re: What are all the spiders here to do?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2018, 11:44:27 am »

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I'm not sure if this is supposed to be shown or not. It started showing up like few days ago, and I noticed a lot more ads on mobile browsers (Safari and Chrome).
I was just wondering if this is normal or not lol
It started today its actually for my benefit to identify the good and bad bots trawling the site.
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Re: What are all the spiders here to do?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2018, 02:36:01 pm »
Wow I never noticed....If I didn't know any better I would have thought it was a Halloween thing...

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Re: What are all the spiders here to do?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2018, 06:18:56 pm »
Aye, like Edo quoted, they are essentially bots from different web browsers. (Google, and Baidu (basically google’s chinese counterpart I believe)). I believe the number listed is how many bots from those web browsers are on the forum, and it’s a way for Raz to track the good bots and bad bots. Likely for security purposes to make sure everyone is safe.

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Re: What are all the spiders here to do?
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2018, 04:59:57 am »
Thank you, all! My question is now answered, and this may now be locked. ^-^

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