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[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 35 points 10 months ago

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 ?

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[-] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Most semi and fully legitimate bots use a custom user agent.

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[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

what about malicious/unwanted bots? if cloudflare is trying to block bots, the bots will want to not look like bots. the easiest way to do that is to use a common user agent.

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