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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The biggest offender is, surprisingly, cloudflare. They will straight up refuse to serve you any site if your user agent is not one of the mainstream ones. It's not even "find the traffic light to prove you're human", but a page basically saying "fuck you, go away".

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well their job is to block weird bot-looking traffic...

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what is more likely to be a bot? a unique and trackable useragent for a semi-niche browser engine, or a vanilla Chromium+Windows which half of everyone uses ?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

User agent identifier is not useful to block bots. You can literally set it to whatever you like.