> Google made an intentional and specific decision
If by "Google" you actually meant "any of a zillion possible entities within Google, including any number of intrusion- and bot-detection AI's which can be incredibly trigger-prone and - like any sort of self-adaptive AI - go haywire in all sorts of entirely unsuspected and creative ways", then you would have some actual basis for that statement.
If by "Google" you actually meant "any of a zillion possible entities within Google, including any number of intrusion- and bot-detection AI's which can be incredibly trigger-prone and - like any sort of self-adaptive AI - go haywire in all sorts of entirely unsuspected and creative ways", then you would have some actual basis for that statement.