From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:
Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user
agent string of
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate.
I followed the URL and discovered this is what Meta uses to gather premium,
human-generated content to train its LLMs. I found the rate of
requests to be annoying.
I already have a PHP program…

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