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Scope the arbitrary-content claim to the public web - #63
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And move it up to the definition of user agents. Co-authored-by: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@gmail.com>
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The parenthetical read as a universal test, and the next sentence contradicts it. Search engines and generative AI systems load arbitrary content, so the parenthetical made them browsers one sentence after the document says they are other kinds of user agent.
It also dropped the scoping from the finding it cites. The evergreen Web says vendors must decide whether their products can browse the public web, then that products which can load arbitrary content are browsers, then carves out closed systems that never reach the public web. This restores "from the public web" and moves the claim out of brackets.
This does not fully settle the conflict, since a crawler also loads arbitrary content from the public web. Filing the smaller fix and leaving the wider question of whether a search engine is a user agent for separate discussion.
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