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by jsheard 119 days ago
This text/markdown scheme feels like it's begging for adversarial shenanigans since it lets you serve different content to agents than humans, by design.
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If you’re willing to serve adversarial Markdown to agents, you’re already willing to cloak HTML.
> it lets you serve different content to agents than humans

You could always do that. The only difference is CloudFlare can now do this on-the-fly, automatically translating HTML to Markdown. My understanding is that you don't have control over the conversion.