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[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It’s conventional to do this, but a user agent string is entirely up to the client, and robots.txt is just a suggestion.

So for the best results, you probably want to mock Google’s crawler because it’s suicidal to block that if you want search traffic.