On: Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent

[gumby]

I think that’s the ideal as the server may provide different data depending on UA.

Does anyone actually do this, though?

[JoosToopit → gumby]

I fake my UA the way I like.

[gumby → JoosToopit]

And why shouldn’t you — it’s your computer!

But my question should have been phrased, “are there any frameworks commonly in use these days that provide different js payloads to different clients?

I’ve been out of that part of the biz for a very long time so this could be a naive question.

[compootr → JoosToopit]

exactly, web standards are simply a suggestion, you can work around them any way you want