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Comment by CelineHagbard at 18/11/2017 at 22:22 UTC
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My guess is it's precisely because of how many people try to just copy links from the google results page, and that google.com doesn't really host any of it's own content. Imagine having that type of post hit the front page: google just got hundreds of thousands of data points of who's visiting what site from reddit. Not that reddit's above tracking users, but they're not about to give that information to google for free.