They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it
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eet
2009-07-24 09:58:42
The high-points of this IRC-log is some squirming on their behalf in response to Lefty's questions and their calling Linus Torvalds 'naive'.
Well, they should know, there no-one as worldly-wise as a bunch of teenage boys! ;-)