Spoofing User-Agent as OpenAI Bypasses Site Restrictions

Developers found that setting a web request's User-Agent to mimic OpenAI or xAI crawlers bypasses paywalls and blocks on sites like LinkedIn; the trick can be enforced in agent configs such as AGENTS.md.

2026-08-22 ~ 2026-08-22 · 2 related posts

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