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The most annoying thing about being a good bot owner, in my experience, is when you get complaints about it misbehaving, only to find that it was actually someb
by knorker 1y ago
The most annoying thing about being a good bot owner, in my experience, is when you get complaints about it misbehaving, only to find that it was actually somebody malicious who wrote their own abusive bot, but is using your bot's user agent.
- pimterry 1y agoCloudflare have some new bot verification proposals designed to fix this, with cryptographic proofs that the user-agent is who they say they are: https://blog.cloudflare.com/web-bot-auth/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/web-bot-auth/.
- EPendragon 1y agoIt is awesome to see that there are efforts to improve upon the old standards with modern web security standards