Comment by xena

Comment by xena 2 days 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 2 days ago

The winning condition does not need to consider people who write before they think.

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ranger_danger a day ago

How is a curl user-agent automatically a well-behaved automation?

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fragmede a day ago

One 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.

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- ranger_danger 14 hours ago
  
  Sounds like the perfect opportunity for bots to use the curl user-agent. How do we know they're not already doing this?
  
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  fragmede 14 hours ago
  
  We 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.
  
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