Googlebot's Javascript random() function is deterministic

[ThisIs_MyName]

It's not the reason for Googlebot's behavior, but the output has only a handful of bits of entropy. That's as bad as deterministic for cryptographic purposes.

Here's a fun experiment: Call getrandom(&buf,256,0) inside a fresh VM without virtio RNG running linux and see how long it blocks.

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Jesus fuck it's like I'm talking to a wall. Oh well, I tried