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I hate chromium (fanaticus.social)
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[-] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 34 points 11 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 ?

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 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.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago

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

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