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Comment by 20after4

2 days ago

A lot of scrapers are actually utilizing some malware installed on residential user's machines, so the request is legitimately coming from a chrome UA on a residential ip.

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dragonwriter  2 days ago

Well, “actually”, perhaps; “legitimately” is still a stretch.

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