Comment Re:The implications? (Score 2, Insightful) 392
It's so that it costs more to index the web
No.
Indexing has nothing to do with sniffing data. Obfuscated TCP is opportunistic, which means that it only happens if the client requests it. It is not required.
This doesn't change indexing at all, except that if you really wanted, you could encrypt your spider traffic when spidering compatible web servers.