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I take it you either have a godly IP reputation, or you don't hit 90% of the current internet which is behind cloudflare, google, akamai, etc? They're pretty b

I take it you either have a godly IP reputation, or you don't hit 90% of the current internet which is behind cloudflare, google, akamai, etc? They're pretty brutal in blocking non-browsers, I tend to have to add a lot of useless headers.

1vuio0pswjnm7 3mo ago
According to their /clientrep-lookup database the IP address I am using has no reputation Blocking "non-browsers" and blocking IP addresses are two different things, so to speak The first is based on dumb heuristics and (incorrect) assumptions about behavior based on what software someone is (mistakenly) presumed to be using The second is based on past behaviour I send the minimum HTTP headers I only request what I want; I do not send requests for ads, tracking or telemetry I accept text formats, e.g., HTML, JSON, etc. No need for images, CSS, Javascript, etc.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3mo ago
  https://www.akamai.com/us-en/clientrep-lookup https://www.akamai.com/us-en/clientrep-lookup IMO, there is a fundamental difference between (a) not using the data collection, surveillance and advertising-friendly software, i.e., popular graphical web browsers controlled by so-called "tech" companies that, surprise, said so-called "tech" companies and their business partners want people to use and (b) engaging in bad network behaviour, what some used to call poor "netiquette" The heuristics used to allegedly identify bad behaviour, for example, sending the "wrong" value in a User-Agent header, are beyond stupid But the false positive totals, "collateral damage", are apparently not large enough to matter https://seclists.org/nanog/2025/May/246 https://seclists.org/nanog/2025/May/246