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Comment by TheRealPomax

1 year ago

Fun fact: you can't steal paid software by faking a user agent, because that's not how sales work. But you can lose sales by blocking user agents.

And use your brain for a hot second will you? Bad actors don't use a rare user agent, they use the same Chrome user agent that everyone else uses.

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