While I don't think scrapers have legal action taken against them unless they become a major pain for the company, faking User-Agent strings has been painted as

While I don't think scrapers have legal action taken against them unless they become a major pain for the company, faking User-Agent strings has been painted as spoofing by lawyers, https://stackoverflow.com/a/20926119/9044659 https://stackoverflow.com/a/20926119/9044659 (very old example). I wonder if employing these methods worsen the legality (or the lack of it thereof) associated with scraping.