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lolinder on June 20, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

So is Chrome. Very artificial. It's still not a robot for the purposes of robots.txt.

What coherent definition of robot excludes Chrome but includes this?

dotancohen on June 22, 2025 [–]

The meatsack at the end of the technology chain.

No meatsack in the loop making decisions and pushing the button? Robots.txt applies.

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