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Oblomov<p>PRO TIP: a program that you can use to navigate on the World Wide Web that does not do things you want it to do and does things you do not want it to do is *not* a User Agent and a fortiori it is *not* a web browser.</p><p><a href="https://sociale.network/tags/www" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>www</span></a> <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://swecyb.com/@troed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>troed</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toots.ch/@dalai" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dalai</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>foone</span></a></span> The problem will be that one will have to reimplement the "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/API" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>API</span></a>" as <em><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/api0" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>api0</span></a></em> from scratch by running inspectors in browsers all the time...</p><ul><li>Remember: The platforms that run these <a href="https://digipres.club/@foone/112685441496803574" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">are hostile</a> to the very <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114862595629371002" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">idea</a> of said <em>phat</em> client.</li></ul><p>It'll necessitate all <code>api 0</code> calls to come from the same <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IPv4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPv4</span></a> and/or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IPv6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPv6</span></a> as the end-user and hide itself with a fake <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> to prevent countermeasures like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RateLimiting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RateLimiting</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/blocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blocking</span></a>.</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://swecyb.com/@troed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>troed</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toots.ch/@dalai" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dalai</span></a></span> yes, you did misunderstood it as it's <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114862595629371002" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">still some shitty bridging</a> which runs a way higher risk of getting blocked by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/API" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>API</span></a> changes instead of a *"cleanroom" implementation that parses the webinterface and web API with a regular <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> like a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a>. </p><p>Or as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>foone</span></a></span> <a href="https://digipres.club/@foone/112685423773959519" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">said</a>: "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/api0" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>api0</span></a>"</p><ul><li>It should be broken down to something that is not dependent on centralized infrastructure to work!</li></ul>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@AMS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AMS</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pony.social/@cadey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cadey</span></a></span> well, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Anubis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anubis</span></a> allegedly does account for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Browsers</span></a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LynxBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LynxBrowser</span></a> and handles them gracefully, unless they violate thresholds to stop scrapers that fraudulently use a fake <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a>, and then it'll soft-ban those.</p><ul><li>Granted on AT&amp;T's ASN you'll likely run into that on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IPv4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPv4</span></a> connections due to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CGNAT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CGNAT</span></a>!</li></ul>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@lukeshu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lukeshu</span></a></span> So I guess <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Anubis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anubis</span></a> has an explicit exception to handle <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Lynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lynx</span></a> and will instead rely on rate-limits and other static means to detect <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/scrapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scrapers</span></a> and handle with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a> cases, like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/fail2ban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fail2ban</span></a>-style autobanning of violating IPs...</p><ul><li>This makes sense for a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WAF</span></a> like Anubis and would've been the only viable option I'm aware of.</li></ul><p>I wounder if anyone has tried using Anubis on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a> to protect <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OnionService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnionService</span></a>|s since that would be a reasonable application for it as well.</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>briankrebs</span></a></span> why am I not surprised at this?</p><ul><li>I wounder if the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malware</span></a> is clever enough to filter by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> and not try to infect <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> machines with keyboard combinations that don't work there...</li></ul><p>Needless to say, it was only a matter of time till we see auto-copying <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> to be weaponized for that...</p>
Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> based banning of <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/textmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>textmode</span></a> browsers is sooooo lame.</p><p>$ lynx -useragent=🖕 https://[…]</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Lynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lynx</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TUI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TextModeBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TextModeBrowser</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTF8</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Emoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emoji</span></a></p>
dorotaC<p>Modern <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a> is annoying, amirite?</p><p>Ads, floating panels, BS styling.</p><p>Tiny scripts like this give me hope. Resist! Kill all the floating cr@p obscuring your screen with a couple of keystrokes. Death to top bars!</p><p><a href="https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-st</span><span class="invisible">icky-headers/</span></a></p><p>Reclaim your <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/useragent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>useragent</span></a> . Seriously, I should turn it into a campaign.</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@S_Paternotte" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>S_Paternotte</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GrapheneOS</span></a></span> meanwhile I see <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> literally using falsified <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a>|s and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DDoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDoS</span></a>'ing clients at work so hard I have to ban entire ASNs and /10 networks just because they ca't be assed to respect the <a href="https://robotstxt.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><code>robots.txt</code></a> and refuse to accept beibg given 403 errors.</p><p>-Needless to say banning <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GrapheneOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrapheneOS</span></a> which are by far the most security-focussed and most diligent in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Aftermarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aftermarket</span></a>-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a>-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ROM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ROM</span></a>|s whilst not banning <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/outdated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>outdated</span></a> Android versions is like banning a <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SecureBoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecureBoot</span></a>|ed"</em> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UbuntuLTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UbuntuLTS</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> installation and going out of one's way to brick <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wine</span></a> whilst still supporting <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WindowsXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsXP</span></a> in 2025!</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@baldur" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>baldur</span></a></span> <em>nodds in agreement</em> at my current employer we had to block <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a>'s entire <a href="https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/1a61ef878ec970c554f7263ec06d57fdc4d49e3e/scrapers.ipv4.block.list.tsv#L6" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">IP ranges</a> as they literally <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DDoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDoS</span></a>'d a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/customer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>customer</span></a> with spoofed <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a>(s) [instead of using <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPTbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPTbot</span></a>]…</p><ul><li><em>It's really fucking annoying!</em></li></ul>
Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )<p>My <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>website</span></a> blenderdumbass . org just received requests with a strange <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/useragent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>useragent</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a></p>
shaun<p>Does anyone recognize the User-agent "ddg_win", sometimes appearing with version numbers like ""ddg_win/0.84.0.0"" or "ddg_win/0.90.3.0"?</p><p>Is this a DuckDuckGo browser for Windows? If so I guess I'd expect a more descriptive user-agent string.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/ddg_win" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ddg_win</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a></p>
itgrrl :donor:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@tek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tek</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TLDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TLDR</span></a> my brain-drippings generated by your toot, feel free to skip 🙃</p><p>this is very interesting… 🤔 </p><p>my instinctive response to this (as a long-ago web dev but casual keeper-upper with stuff) was, “don’t you get what you need from <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> strings any more?” so I went (a short way) down a rabbit hole… 🕵️‍♀️</p><p>despite recent changes by Google to restrict info leakage by Chrome user agents (🎉🎉🎉 yay <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>^), it seems like they still give plenty of info about devices that can be used to put them into at least buckets of “phone”, “tablet”, and “desktop”^^ (happy to be corrected, of course 🙃)</p><p>do we really need websites tailored to the pixel rather than a few buckets based on approximate sizes, with layouts to match those sizes using percentage-based definitions for elements / containers? 🤔 is that not sufficient for decent responsive / adaptive design any more? 🤔 is the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> *actually* significantly better using exact-pixel tailoring? 🤔 do sites see significantly higher bounce rates or lower sales conversion or whatever metric they care about if we approximate with well-thought-out layouts? 🤔</p><p>[rant]what I mostly see these days (that I loathe) is web devs doing “mobile only” rather than “mobile first” layouts that are ridiculously large &amp; shouty on desktops and provide almost no detail on anything ‘coz they sell to assume that no one will ever look at the site on a non-mobile device… 🫠[/rant]</p><p>if a site offers me something that fits well enough into “mobile” or “desktop”^^^ (and *actually* allows me to switch between them if I explicitly request it to do so), AND gives me an on-page way to increase / decrease text size without altering other elements, I’m usually very happy (rant about WhyTF every mobile browser doesn’t bake per-site text size controls into their <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> left for another day 🤪)<br> &nbsp; <br>&nbsp; <br> &nbsp; <br>^ well, more like “privacy” since you can still pull all the details from headers or via JS so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <br>&nbsp; <br>^^ e.g. data from <a href="https://www.useragents.me/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">useragents.me/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>&nbsp; <br>^^^ bonus points for offering “tablet” as well</p>
Austin Huang ❤️<p>The <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> of the <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> feature of a Precor <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/treadmill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>treadmill</span></a> at my place. It somehow claims to be an iPhone 6.1.3, yet the browser UI looks Android (it uses Android 4 cursors and a keyboard in that style). Anyways, it does lack support of modern web features (its homepage is the low-spec version of Google, and the styling is completely broken on many sites), so the only thing I've been reading on it is NPR Text...</p><p>(And yes, I've been running a bit recently...)</p>
Inautilo<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Launches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Launches</span></a><br>Redirect Checker · A web tool to analyze and verify URL redirects <a href="https://ilo.im/1605hw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ilo.im/1605hw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>_____<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Redirect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Redirect</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTTP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MetaTag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaTag</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
杂食型蓑白(赛里斯地区的形态)<p>↑<br>补充一下:<br>用电脑访问净化后的链接要在登录状态下(先在随便一个小红书页面登录小红书账号、再访问链接)<br>否则会跳转推荐页</p><p>手机可以使用浏览器的「请求桌面版网页」功能(在各浏览器apps的菜单里,是浏览器自己的功能)<br>可以访问到自适应手机尺寸的完整页面,此时就可以在网页中登录了<br>不过<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E5%B0%8F%E7%BA%A2%E4%B9%A6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>小红书</span></a> 限制网页登陆设备只能有一个,即在手机浏览器里登陆了网页版,电脑端就会被登出</p><p>(或者直接将链接贴在微信消息里再点开,小红书对微信UA免登陆。所以如果一定不想登录账号的话,电脑浏览器可以安装修改浏览器 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> 的插件来替换成微信的UA)</p><p>顺便<br>小红书用户个人页链接格式是<br>www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/XXXX(X为任意大小写字母和数字)</p><p>XXXX即为用户ID字符串<br>我遇到的用户ID字符串有和贴文ID格式类似的5XXXX00000000XXXX(5和6开头都有)样式<br>也有无规律的一串字母数字混排样式的</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E6%95%B0" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>数</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/URL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URL</span></a></p>
Oblomov<p><a href="https://sociale.network/tags/HeadsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeadsUp</span></a>, my entire website was scraped by a new <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> scraper <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/Ai2Bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ai2Bot</span></a> . <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> is:</p><p>Mozilla/5.0 (compatible) Ai2Bot-Dolma (+<a href="https://www.allenai.org/crawler" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">allenai.org/crawler</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p><p>Some of the IPs:</p><p>100.27.119.55<br>100.28.58.124<br>100.28.84.26<br>174.174.51.252<br>18.205.170.247<br>3.214.92.12<br>34.198.246.31<br>44.194.249.41<br>44.196.112.226<br>44.196.49.185<br>50.19.235.114<br>54.144.167.95<br>54.162.34.15<br>54.236.199.27<br>54.237.131.196<br>54.80.81.52</p><p>Would have blocked earlier if I had noticed. Reads robots.txt, no idea if respected.</p>
Inautilo<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resources</span></a><br>ai.robots.txt · An open list of AI agents you might want to block <a href="https://ilo.im/15zp8j" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ilo.im/15zp8j</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>_____<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scraper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scraper</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Content</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Website</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RobotsTxt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobotsTxt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Backend</span></a></p>
Yesterday's Rose<p>Huh, <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> on <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> OS apparently reports itself as "X11" (which is a lie, this is Wayland) and "x86_64" (which is a lie, this is aarch64) on the <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> string.</p><p>I can't figure out why they would do this except for "compatibility" reasons. Do some sites *really* break on this? What web developers could possibly give a darn about processor architectures and weird Linux tech stack details?</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://akkoma.meows.gay/users/eris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eris</span></a></span> can we just ban <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a> for good?</p><p>At least <a href="https://akkoma.meows.gay/objects/f6814e00-91b7-4e76-8f47-fa0f09452fba" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">that kind of invasive garbage</a> that fails to even do basic <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a>-based <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/filtering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filtering</span></a>?</p>