Comment by arinlen

> But those two issues are orthogonal. Assuming a non-DDOS scenario, do you really want to keep users or specific browsers out just because of their choice of browser?

Yes, yes I want to prevent whole classes of user agents from downloading my content. I'm talking about user agents such as python scripts. Those clearly reflect traffic not from real users, and potentially malicious, and it makes absolutely no sense to fulfill the requests, let alone pay for it.