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namecast on Dec 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Failed HN Launch vs. Reddit Paid Advertising: Whic...

I didn't even mention that! Reddit reported 100% more traffic than I actually saw with any analytics service. Not only that, I saw a bunch of suspicious hits from reddit referrers that didn't load any CSS or javascript. Like someone was just running GET requests by hand.

AlecSchueler on Dec 6, 2013 | [–]

Could this be partly caused by people running noscript and the like? Although I haven't heard of many people opting not to load CSS by default.

samman on Dec 6, 2013 | [–]

Could this be from bots scraping reddit links?

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