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[-] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Why? Isn't it likely that it'll just report e.g. "python-requests" for the user agent, and it's up to the server side to decide what that means?

[-] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 1 points 8 minutes ago

That user agent would make them easily identifiable and therefore blockable. It's more likely that they are trying to hide as a legitimate user.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That will be labeled as "other" in those cases

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