two from Facebook

[lucy24]

IP: the usual FB ranges

UA: cortex/1.0
UA: adreview/1.0

requests: generally the same image files requested by FB externalhit and similar

“cortex” first seen in March
“adreview” first seen a few days ago

I don't do facebook and don't do ads. I suppose I've got a cortex.

[iamlost]

The best ad is no ad so you get a perfect review score. Congratulations!


I trust that your (presumed present) cortices do not suffer from Reflected XSS as does that poor crawler...
someone should inform it's owner that an upgrade has been available for a couple of years now...
I guess good healthcare is as problematic for bots as humans...

[tangor]

I got yer "healthcare" for some bots! (evil laugh included)

[NickMNS]

@Iamlost not everybot lives in Canada, most bots can't afford good healthcare.

[iamlost]

Obotacare, Obotacare! Wherefore art thou Obotacare?

[tangor]

@imalost ... you are sentenced to the punitentery for two beers and a crawfish gumbo dinner.

[wilderness]

Anybody seen this UA? Note end!
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0"

Was neither a FB or Twitter IP, in fact after being 403, the visitor switched UA's to an iphone and the visits was normal.

[tangor]

The more I labor over my raw logs, the more certain I am that only <10% are human. Yikes!

Ouroboros is likely to be a real entity and the humans will be less than gnats in the feeding frenzy!

[tangor]

Which raises the spectre of bots eating bots ... how will google and bing and the rest make money from mechanical ghosts?

Where's Linda Hamilton when you need her?

[lucy24]

Facebot Twitterbot

Oh, yes, I recognize that. Have been seeing it very sporadically for a few years, but have never figured out what it is or what it's for. Lately it seems especially fond of apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png (a file I happen to have, so can't say what it would request otherwise). Mostly it's page + apple-touch-icon; much less often the full set of images associated with a page.

I tentatively think it's some kind of utility attached to human computers, whether intentionally or otherwise. The Accept-Language header varies with the file being requested, for example "en-ca" for a page that's of particular interest to Canadians, but always just one term instead of a whole string of them. (Admittedly, most humans' list of accepted languages isn't as long as mine, but non-mobile browsers do usually list a few variants.)

[iamlost]

I have it down as the iOS 10+ iMessages app preview engine.

If memory serves there has been unanswered bewilderment as to why it seems cloaked in FB and Twitter.

[notriddle]

Facebot Twitterbot

That really belongs in its own thread. It's not connected to Facebook, I'm sure.

[lucy24]

It's not connected to Facebook, I'm sure.

Nor yet to Twitter. But I agree with you.

:: wandering off in search of a moderator ::