• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s time to get rid of user-agent strings that declare anything other than desktop, mobile, or html version.

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      1 year ago

      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”.

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          1 year 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 ?