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by woodruffw 1084 days ago
> This is not an argument in favour of a search engine/browser penalizing HTTP servers.

Why isn't it? By navigating to a domain (or searching for it), the user is arguably making an intent statement ("I want content on $domain"). Ensuring that the user doesn't get spam, malware, etc. instead seems well within the scope of the browser.