oh_no_not_again

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   by oh_no_not_again 6y ago

   Right. But why Java default user agent, and not Python request's, libwww-perl or curl itself? Is there disproportionately more bad bots written in Java? This is not-intuitive to me, so that's why I posted this :)
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   by oh_no_not_again 6y ago

   Nah, first I got very surprised, then did this post, then vent to sleep. Just tweeted at them.
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   DuckDuckGo returns 500 if user agent starts with “Java”(pastebin.com)

   3 points by oh_no_not_again 6y ago|5 comments
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   by oh_no_not_again 6y ago

   I wonder why. My guess is to prevent bots from aggressively scraping site generating useless load, but I failed to find any other user agent strings that lead to this behavior. Any suggestions?