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		happymellon 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self... > So much for User Agent. User agent has been abused for so long, I forget a time when it wasn't. Anyone else remember having to fake being a Windows machine so that YouTube/Netflix would serve you content better than standard def, or banking portals that blocked you if your agent didn't say you were Internet Explorer?

wooger 12 days ago [–]

I mean forget that, all modern desktop browsers (at least) start with the string 'Mozilla/5.0', still, in a world where Chrome is so dominant.

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