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Just out of curiousity

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on June 2, 2004 - 6:47pm.
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There's a few folks that read the Google cache instead of P6 directly. I see it because Google caches the Sitemeter counter.

Why?

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Submitted by Dog (not verified) on June 2, 2004 - 10:54pm.

Either to check if the page was changed, or to hide your IP address from the siteowner, without bothering to go through a proxy.

Speaking from personal experience, I have noticed a correlation between being portscanned and me leaving critical comments on some extreme left fora.

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Submitted by P6 (not verified) on June 3, 2004 - 4:15pm.

Well, the IP hiding is a wash because Sitemeter suppies that. And I'm setting up periodic database backups for disaster recovery purposes.

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Submitted by dof (not verified) on June 3, 2004 - 10:16pm.

You also could use the google cache if you want to hide the search term from the siteowner, but are to lazy to copy-and-paste the url.

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