Not to mention, it seems HN started to block login from user agents which are not based on a 'whatwg cartel' web engines... or their security provider loves gogol a bit too much...

(How do I post this messase then, well, my browser is faking a real user agent from some browser using a 'whatwg cartel' web engine)

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hsbauauvhabzb 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Blocking the curl useragent can obviously be worked around, but is probably a net good. This isn’t a conspiracy, HN would be getting spammed by crawlers but they won’t care about legitimate users.

	▲	sylware 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why are they blocking login on links, lynx, etc, user agents then? Those are not curl user agents. And I did post this message because I am "techy" enough to know how to fake my user agent string, but normal people using noscritp/basic HTML will be bluntly blocked. And AI BOTs are certainly using 'whatwg cartel' web engines now. So this fit more than anythiing else 'whatwg cartel' agenda perfectly... how f-ing convenient... Hopefully HN security provider will stop making love with gogol.