The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.
In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.
I do engineering, not religion.
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.