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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year 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 ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.