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		spurgu on Feb 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests If you don't have an "officially recognized" UA string some websites will assume you're a scraper/crawler/bot/ and rightfully so.

ndnxhs on Feb 11, 2019 | [–]

If I was ever trying to scrape a website that blocked my user agent I would just set the user agent to chrome on windows. Every library I have used supports setting whatever UA you want.

threatofrain on Feb 10, 2019 | [–]

That's just a heuristic of the times. Soon bots will be much smarter than that.

seba_dos1 on Feb 10, 2019 | [–]

They already are.

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