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Comment by hshdhdhehd

4 months ago

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

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skylurk  4 months ago

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

trenchpilgrim  4 months ago

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

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