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jojomoddinglast Tuesday at 9:14 PM1 replyview on HN

I guess I trigger the bot detection? All I am served with is a Rick Astley quote.

Turns out switching from Firefox mobile to Chrome mobile "fixes" this. Thanks for supporting the free and open internet.


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Benderlast Tuesday at 9:34 PM

Yeah I probably have a number of false positives from my semi-fascist nginx configuration [2] I just use this for hobby sites and would never be accepted as a commercially supported CDN. They do fancy detection methods whereas I just use simple hacky methods. I tend to tune things so my friends can get through and some random people may get dropped until I look at what they are sending. For what it's worth each method is entirely optional or tunable to a persons needs or fever dreams. Probably language settings.

[1] - https://mirror.newsdump.org/nginx/inc.d/30_generic_http_stuf...