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I have blocked a version of Lynx on my own site - there was a scraper tool using Lynx as the User Agent, presumably as a way of requesting the most scraper frie
by SyneRyder 11y ago
I have blocked a version of Lynx on my own site - there was a scraper tool using Lynx as the User Agent, presumably as a way of requesting the most scraper friendly version of the site. Somehow I traced it back to a pirate/cracking group using the scraper to monitor my site for software updates, so they had the best chance of releasing 0-day cracks of my software. (Should've been easy for them to work around, but I guess I'm small enough that it wasn't worth their time.)
Lynx itself is awesome though, I used to use it a lot in my University days.
- theSage 11y agoThat never came to mind. I'm going to believe that they took a similar decision.