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		fragmede 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Don't Need Anubis 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.

ranger_danger 19 days ago [–]

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

fragmede 19 days 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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