"Authentication for your personal crawlers & SEO tools is going to be more and more of a topic. This is a simple guide to get started (though I imagine it'll evolve significantly over time).The neat thing is that you don't have to list your IP addresses, and can be verified from where-ever you are (provided you keep the signature). Ideally you'd authenticate on more than just the signature, so that people can't fake you, but this is early steps."
"If you'd like to be involved in the web standards around this, follow datatracker.ietf.org. and the associated mailing list. Your feedback on all of this is welcome there, no need to be an "expert" (whatever that is). An example of something that's still uncertain: if you have an AI system in your browser that clicks around and does stuff for you, is that a bot that could (should?) be authenticated? or is that just "you"? (a better / different / assisted "you"?)"
Authentication for personal crawlers and SEO tools is becoming increasingly important. A simple guide can provide initial steps while the approach will evolve over time. Personal crawlers do not have to list IP addresses and can be verified from any location if they retain a signature. Additional authentication factors beyond a signature are desirable to prevent impersonation. Participation in web standards work via the IETF datatracker and mailing list is encouraged and feedback is welcome from non-experts. An open question remains whether AI agents acting in a user's browser should be treated as authenticatable bots or as the user themselves.
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