Post #2686088

@tdp_org@mastodon.social Well done! I know Google did / does something similar with what were actually "legitimate" Google spiders to avoid cloaking; knowing that sites would show different output to a Google crawler vs. other clients, they'd intentionally spot-check some sites with non-Google-identifying crawlers intended to look like regular users to root out scams. But I sincerely doubt that's what you were seeing with those "Meta" crawlers on non-Meta IPs (and, honestly, if you knocked out Meta's trust-but-verify while administering your own site... That's on them, not you).