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This is completely false, the user agent being used by Perplexity its _not_ the headless-chrome user agent, wich is close similar to this (emphasis on HeadlessC
by mattigames 2y ago
This is completely false, the user agent being used by Perplexity its _not_ the headless-chrome user agent, wich is close similar to this (emphasis on HeadlessChrome):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
They are spoofing it to pretend to be a desktop Chrome one:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
- lolinder 2y agoAh, you're correct, my bad. I don't personally have a problem with spoofing user agents, but yeah, they're either spoofing or for some reason they're truly using a non-headless Chrome.
- jcrawfordor 2y agoThere's a difference here between "headless chrome" as a concept and "headless-chrome" the software. It's still pretty common to run browser automation with a full "headful" browser, in which case you would just get the normal user agent. headless-chrome is sort of an optimized option that comes with some downsides.