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Föderation EN Do 25.07.2024 04:46:31

@Gargron Do you know that you can send a Googlebot user agent when resolving the card metadata? It avoids the various redirections that happen because of cookies, regions, and whatnot.

The current cards confuse a lot of folks (including me until I dug into it).

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Föderation EN Do 25.07.2024 08:49:41

@chockenberry Unfortunately this might also result you to get blocked by some websites or WAFs, because you are impersonating GoogleBot (same user agent, not a Google IP range).
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Föderation EN Do 25.07.2024 15:26:37

@renchap @Gargron @hotdogsladies Yep I’m aware of that - Bloomberg is a high profile example.

It’s a tough situation, but the Googlebot is a de-facto user agent for the “this content is not for a person” use case. And that is happening more and more with federation/diversity.

Until there is an actual standard, it’s the best we have and folks like Bloomberg will miss out.