Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Protocol constraints shaping communities Date: 23 Mar 2026 13:42:36 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 11 Expires: 1 Mar 2027 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <10pcu9k$3edpf$1@dont-email.me> <10pd6hu$3gkba$1@dont-email.me> <10pd7op$3gqrr$2@dont-email.me> <10pdkol$3kgpa$2@dont-email.me> <10pe137$3p7ng$1@dont-email.me> <87tsu7w1w4.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de GlFBmuGfi/FMU7yCjD5XOAGrCykor5nlCGXwPlLovTqJqi Cancel-Lock: sha1:2oFwD26SNRpJr0g+fGMzpQBZ9E4= sha256:oJrB87ubs83Pddw91V8IzYUPBICJR0LacT2/sHx3fRk= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2026 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:234326 Mike Spencer wrote or quoted: >localhost. That script submitted the request, edited the reply to >eliminate the proxying of response URLs through Google and redirecting >"next page" search requests back though the script. Also elided a lot >of unwanted crap. Putting out fire with gasoline, you can actually use JavaScript (which can be stored as a bookmarklet) in the browser to rewrite result pages.