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Comment by staticshock

3 hours ago

For a social network, more information about their users = better ad targeting. It likely gets plumbed into models to inform user profiles.

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Aurornis  3 hours ago

Look at the actual list. It's primarily questionable AI tools, scrapers, lead generation tools, and other plugins in that vein.

I would guess this is for rate limiting and abuse detection.

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