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by Spivak 637 days ago
Yep, there's really two parts to this.

* Some company's crawler they're planning to use for AI training data.

* User agents that make web requests on behalf of a person.

Blocking the second one because the user's preferred browser is ChatGPT isn't really in keeping with the hacker spirit. The client shouldn't matter, I would hope that the web is made to be consumed by more than just Chrome.