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FWIW humans happen to be able to choose their user-agent at will. Not so long ago changing your user-agent to one of the search engine bot as a simple workarou
by bigbugbag 10y ago
FWIW humans happen to be able to choose their user-agent at will.
Not so long ago changing your user-agent to one of the search engine bot as a simple workaround for some paywalls that appeared in search results was a thing.
It's also part of the techniques used to give extra privacy and messing with fingerprinting. For example random agent spoofer: https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer