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		lolinder 3 days ago \| 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 1 day ago [–]

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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