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minus-squaremaj@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down5·1 month agoAI agents and web scrapers surely
minus-squarerealitaetsverlust@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up79·1 month agoI would expect AI scrapers to fake a windows user-agent tbh.
minus-squareWhelks_chance@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoWhy? Isn’t it likely that it’ll just report e.g. “python-requests” for the user agent, and it’s up to the server side to decide what that means?
minus-squarerealitaetsverlust@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoThat user agent would make them easily identifiable and therefore blockable. It’s more likely that they are trying to hide as a legitimate user.
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoThat will be labeled as “other” in those cases
minus-squaremaj@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoJust hard to believe 6%. That’s a huge number. Hopefully it’s true🤞
minus-squarebus_factor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoChrome OS is down, they probably got reinstalled with regular Linux. The rest represents about 1% of the total market share, which could probably be Steam Decks.
AI agents and web scrapers surely
I would expect AI scrapers to fake a windows user-agent tbh.
Why? Isn’t it likely that it’ll just report e.g. “python-requests” for the user agent, and it’s up to the server side to decide what that means?
That user agent would make them easily identifiable and therefore blockable. It’s more likely that they are trying to hide as a legitimate user.
That will be labeled as “other” in those cases
Just hard to believe 6%. That’s a huge number. Hopefully it’s true🤞
Chrome OS is down, they probably got reinstalled with regular Linux. The rest represents about 1% of the total market share, which could probably be Steam Decks.