Surely not?

[AmericanThunder]

Dan,

The screenshot attached seems to show a Google Adsense spider reading private messages on this forum.
Surely not?

 

[TransAmDan]

Spiders will try to find links and click through, you do need to be logged in to view private messages, and you can only view messages that are addressed to the person you are logged in as. I cant quite see from your screen shot, but it should have a Red ! symbol showing they have been denied access to the page they are trying to read.

 

[AmericanThunder]

It does indeed have the access denied symbol.
Phew, knowing my suspicion of all things google and Facebook I thought it was trawling PM’s!