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Malicious script can (1) fingerprint and detect lab machines and therefore not do bad thing — this is arbitrarily easy if Google test lab is the first to ever execute their script, (2) over time build a graph of IPs, geos, test machine characteristics that essentially allow them to avoid the world’s entire test lab infrastructure (there’s only a fixed number of test lab providers in the world since it’s so expensive to set up this infrastructure), (3) yes, bypassing testing like this is a violation of ToS, but that is fairly meaningless as entities and IPs are cheap to incorporate, (4) not sure what you’re saying about permission policies across its domains? Google does have such policies unless I’m missing something.


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