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Blocking the curl useragent can obviously be worked around, but is probably a net good. This isn’t a conspiracy, HN would be getting spammed by crawlers but the
by hsbauauvhabzb 3mo ago
Blocking the curl useragent can obviously be worked around, but is probably a net good. This isn’t a conspiracy, HN would be getting spammed by crawlers but they won’t care about legitimate users.
- sylware 3mo agoWhy are they blocking login on links, lynx, etc, user agents then? Those are not curl user agents. And I did post this message because I am "techy" enough to know how to fake my user agent string, but normal people using noscritp/basic HTML will be bluntly blocked. And AI BOTs are certainly using 'whatwg cartel' web engines now. So this fit more than anythiing else 'whatwg cartel' agenda perfectly... how f-ing convenient... Hopefully HN security provider will stop making love with gogol.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3mo agoIs this really what upsets you? Seems very trivial. HN would almost certainly block user agents due to abuse, not because they're an evil corporation. Cheer up and work around it.
- sylware 3mo agoDid you actually read what I wrote to say that? Unless gogol and its whatwg cartel friends are engaged in some shadow campaign to sabotage alternative noscript/basic HTML browsers, AI BOTS runs on whatwg cartel web engines now. Who would not be upset by such hypocritical thinking?