• Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Why? Isn’t it likely that it’ll just report e.g. “python-requests” for the user agent, and it’s up to the server side to decide what that means?

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      18 days ago

      That user agent would make them easily identifiable and therefore blockable. It’s more likely that they are trying to hide as a legitimate user.