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Re:What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage by jgrahamc on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:23PM (#28801665)
Yes. And we are using that information to better target those bots.

But guess what? iMessage adds Facebot and Twitterbot to its User—Agent when getting a preview when you send someone a link.

So, as ever, shit’s complicated in the real world.

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Re:What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage by detaro on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:25PM (#28801683)
Interesting, but makes sense. want to do previews, look like a preview bot - presumably there's also some sites that serve preview metadata only to such user agents.
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