Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent

Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by condiment on Saturday June 15, 2024 @01:22PM (#40691111)

If an AI agent is performing a search on behalf of a user, should its user agent be the same as that user’s?

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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by Filligree on Saturday June 15, 2024 @02:15PM (#40691558)

Users don’t have user agent strings, user agents do.

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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by gumby on Saturday June 15, 2024 @01:32PM (#40691194)

I think that’s the ideal as the server may provide different data depending on UA.

Does anyone actually do this, though?

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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by JoosToopit on Saturday June 15, 2024 @01:50PM (#40691358)

I fake my UA the way I like.

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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by gumby on Saturday June 15, 2024 @02:34PM (#40691707)

And why shouldn’t you — it’s your computer!

But my question should have been phrased, “are there any frameworks commonly in use these days that provide different js payloads to different clients?

I’ve been out of that part of the biz for a very long time so this could be a naive question.

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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by compootr on Saturday June 15, 2024 @02:17PM (#40691580)

exactly, web standards are simply a suggestion, you can work around them any way you want

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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by lofaszvanitt on Saturday June 15, 2024 @03:00PM (#40691910)

It should, erm sorry, must pass all the info it got from the user to you, so you would have an idea who wanted info from your site.

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