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> The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users How does this happen?
by irishcoffee 11mo ago
> The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users
How does this happen?
- Bender 11mo agoHow does this happen? Not the person you are asking. Bot operators have an incentive to make crawlers look as much like a human as possible so they do not get blocked. Some of them fail miserably and some nearly succeed. That makes it trivial to accidentally block a real person. I am personally fine with that given I do not pay for this site and have no SLA or contract with it.
- arccy 11mo agosome humans also try their best to make themselves look like bots...
- Imustaskforhelp 11mo agobeep boop.
- slater 11mo agoYou're absolutely right!
- ZuoCen_Liu 11mo agolol
- ohhnoodont 11mo agoLast week if you are using a VPN + a browser that limits fingerprinting, you were likely to see error messages accessing HN.
- pjc50 11mo agoEvery filter process has false positives and false negatives, especially when crawlers are trying to fake their status.