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Max Taxable · #10 01-16-2014, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Saaaaaaaaaay whaaaaaaaat? Nah it helps them, they can find you quicker that way... otherwise if removed and done properly they would need to find another way to "find" you. Then again I suppose one could simply drag & drop a image from the images directory into Google Images and find even more vBulletin forums!

^ Don't tell the ftard hackers I said that, I bet none have thought of that yet the silly rabbits, the lot of them!

Right, in searches for the term. I should have recognized that's what the OP was asking.

This is the same reason we also remove the version number as well.

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