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psutor on June 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Clickbank order details in plain view

Does Google pull links from Gmail and attempt to index them? I am wondering how they knew to index these pages with random URLs (the "security through obscurity" employed by ClickBank and defended in the support ticket referenced in the comments here).

ShaunK on June 19, 2013 [–]

I'm fairly certain they do, from experiences in the past where otherwise completely private (but unprotected) URLs have ended up indexed.

jontro on June 20, 2013 | [–]

If you're browsing with chrome or a browser with the google toolbar urls will be submitted to google automatically.

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