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This was a tactical decision I made in order to avoid breaking well-behaved automation that properly identifies itself. I have been mocked endlessly for it. The
by xena 11mo ago
This was a tactical decision I made in order to avoid breaking well-behaved automation that properly identifies itself. I have been mocked endlessly for it. There is no winning.
- seba_dos1 11mo agoThe winning condition does not need to consider people who write before they think.
- ranger_danger 11mo agoHow is a curl user-agent automatically a well-behaved automation?
- fragmede 11mo agoOne assumes it is a human, running curl manually, from the command line on a system they're authorized to use. It's not wget -r.
- ranger_danger 11mo agoSounds like the perfect opportunity for bots to use the curl user-agent. How do we know they're not already doing this?
- fragmede 11mo agoWe don’t but now that we’ve talked about it publicly on the Internet they’re gonna start doing that. I'm sure they previously were, but now we've gone and told them, uh yeah.