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Privacy & policyApril 8, 2026 · 3 min read

Transparency reports standardize crawler identity strings for public interest sites

A voluntary schema lets NGOs publish machine-readable tables of who fetched what during election windows.

Transparency reports standardize crawler identity strings for public interest sites

The schema complements—not replaces—existing robots logs. It adds signed CSV drops for watchdogs and aligns names with reverse-DNS where possible.

Implementation burden is low for sites already shipping nightly log aggregates to object storage.

Watch for false positives when CDNs collapse user-agents; include edge headers that preserve original agent strings for analysis jobs.

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By Inseo

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