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> It's great to see this getting more attention. User-agent discrimination (i.e. "go away if you're not using the latest version of Chrome") needs to become illegal.

UA should be fully deprecated already. It rarely achieves its goals at this point. There are better alternatives.




No, it helps me find scrapers and bots too lazy to spoof their UA, oh you’re using “curl”, “go-http-client”, or whatever non browser client? You get an instant block.


Detecting low-effort bots is really not worth keeping the pile of s** that is the UA header for.




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