Given these are trivially forged, presumably they aren't really using a Mac for ...

snowwrestler · 2025-12-15T15:53:02 1765813982

Right. Crawler user agent strings in general tend to include all sorts of legacy stuff for compatibility.

This actually is a well-behaved crawler user agent because it identifies itself at the end.

Hrun0 · 2025-12-15T15:34:13 1765812853

Yes, it is very common to change your useragent for web scraping. Mainly because there are websites which will block you just based on that alone

benjojo12 · 2025-12-15T15:32:43 1765812763

the ip address the this comes from is a OpenAI search bot range:

> "ipv4Prefix": "74.7.175.128/25"

from https://openai.com/searchbot.json

deathanatos · 2025-12-15T19:50:45 1765828245

… the UA is malformed, even.

Makes me want to reconfigure my servers to just drop such traffic. If you can't be arsed to send a well-formed UA, I have doubts that you'll obey other conventions like robots.txt.