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Add "assumptions that became wrong" to "intended" and the perspective radically changes, to the point that omitting this part from my comment changes everything
by jraph 1y ago
Add "assumptions that became wrong" to "intended" and the perspective radically changes, to the point that omitting this part from my comment changes everything.
I would even add:
> the client wanted the server to deliver content it had intended for a different client
In most cases, the webmaster intended their work to look good, not really to send different content to different clients. That later part is a technical means, a workaround. The intent of bringing the ok version to the end user was respected… even better with the user agent lies!
> The difference is that people don't want companies to profit off of their content.
Indeed¹, and also they don't want terrible bot to bring down their servers.
1: well, my open source work explicitly allows people to profit off of it - as long as the license is respected (attribution, copyleft, etc)