#UserAgents

greemLazy sysadmin request: does anyone have a link to a well-updated user agent list containing bots, scrapers, AI agents, crawlers etc?There are a bazillion on Github and Codeberg and a lot of them aren't maintained.Ta!<a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/LazyWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LazyWeb</a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/Sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sysadmin</a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/UserAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UserAgents</a>

Inautilo<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Development</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trends</a> Who’s crawling your site in 2025 · The most active and blocked bots and crawlers <a href="https://ilo.im/1652mx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ilo.im/1652mx</a>_____ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crawlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crawlers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Website</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SEO</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UserAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UserAgents</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RobotsTxt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobotsTxt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frontend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Frontend</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backend</a>

Jens Oliver MeiertQuick terminology and preference question:On <a href="https://mas.to/@frontenddogma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@frontenddogma</a>, I tag anything related to browsers (and other user agents) with “user-agents.”I’m not sure it’s as clear and am wondering about moving to “browsers” instead (and cleaning up in other cases).Do you think…<a href="https://mas.to/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#browsers</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/useragents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#useragents</a>

Ecologia Digital"When the web – and its <a href="https://mato.social/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#browsers</a> – were a big, contented, diverse, competitive space, it was harder for tech companies to collude to capture standards bodies like the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/W3C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#W3C</a> to secure even more dominance. As the web turned into Tom Eastman's "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four," that kind of collusion became much easier." <a href="https://mato.social/tags/UserAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UserAgents</a> <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UserAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UserAgents</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IoT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IoT</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SmartObjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartObjects</a>: "User agents can be well-designed or they can be poorly made. The fact that a user agent is designed to act in accord with your desires doesn't mean that it always will. A software agent, like a human agent, is not infallible.However – and this is the key – if a user agent thwarts your desire due to a fault, that is fundamentally different from a user agent that thwarts your desires because it is designed to serve the interests of someone else, even when that is detrimental to your own interests.A "faithless" user agent is utterly different from a "clumsy" user agent, and faithless user agents have become the norm. Indeed, as crude early internet clients progressed in sophistication, they grew increasingly treacherous. Most non-browser tools are designed for treachery.A smart speaker or voice assistant routes all your requests through its manufacturer's servers and uses this to build a nonconsensual surveillance dossier on you. Smart speakers and voice assistants even secretly record your speech and route it to the manufacturer's subcontractors, whether or not you're explicitly interacting with them:"<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/#rewilding-the-internet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/#rewilding-the-internet</a>

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