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hshdhdhehdyesterday at 6:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

What if everyone requests from the bot has a different UA?


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skylurkyesterday at 8:11 AM

Success. The goal is to differentiate users and bots who are pretending to be users.

trenchpilgrimyesterday at 9:13 AM

Then you can tell the bots apart from legitimate users through normal WAF rules, because browsers froze the UA a while back.