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While Meta Crawls the Web for AI Training Data, Bruce Ediger Pranks Them with Endless Bad Data


From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger: Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user agent string of meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler) was hitting my blog's machine at an unreasonable rate. I fol...

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