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Well no, but I also understand why captchas are kinda necessary.

• LtWorf 2y ago
  Because google wants us to work for free? Because they want to punish those who dare to use firefox without changing the user agent?
  • nulld3v 2y ago
    Possible, but I think the more likely explanation is that Firefox users are just higher risk. I don't think the slightly increasesed rare of captchas is going to drive people off of Firefox.
    • LtWorf 2y ago
      Do you really think hackers don't know about the User-Agent header?
      • nulld3v 2y ago
        No, but in whatever little bot/scraper blocking work I did, user-agent blocking was an incredibly powerful low-hanging fruit. For sensitive material, we would often insta-ban anyone who hit us with a 'curl' user-agent and that definitely killed a lot of script-kiddies' dreams right then and there. Obviously, if you are a determined "hacker" you would get past that and hit the honeypots but simple filters could filter out enough scrapers such that the rest of the attacks could be manually evaluated by humans.
        • LtWorf 2y ago
          It feels very strange to me that someone can honestly believe that google isn't pulling shenanigans.