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reddit putting fake "5 minutes ago" in 2 year old post

notice the 5 minutes ago, that dosen't exist, and the post is from 2 years ago, from a deleted account. and it isn't from my web search because every other result don't have that

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  • This has been a thing for a while. I think (though I'm not sure) it's because the signed out page has recommended posts, which tend to be more recent. Google's scraper then uses the more recent times on the search page, for some reason.

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