▲ 1265 ▼ I hate chromium (fanaticus.social) submitted 2 years ago by SoccerGod@fanaticus.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml 143 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Well their job is to block weird bot-looking traffic... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 years ago (1 child) what is more likely to be a bot? a unique and trackable useragent for a semi-niche browser engine, or a vanilla Chromium+Windows which half of everyone uses ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago what about malicious/unwanted bots? if cloudflare is trying to block bots, the bots will want to not look like bots. the easiest way to do that is to use a common user agent. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago User agent identifier is not useful to block bots. You can literally set it to whatever you like. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 years ago (1 child) what is more likely to be a bot? a unique and trackable useragent for a semi-niche browser engine, or a vanilla Chromium+Windows which half of everyone uses ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago what about malicious/unwanted bots? if cloudflare is trying to block bots, the bots will want to not look like bots. the easiest way to do that is to use a common user agent. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago what about malicious/unwanted bots? if cloudflare is trying to block bots, the bots will want to not look like bots. the easiest way to do that is to use a common user agent. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago what about malicious/unwanted bots? if cloudflare is trying to block bots, the bots will want to not look like bots. the easiest way to do that is to use a common user agent. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago User agent identifier is not useful to block bots. You can literally set it to whatever you like. permalink fedilink source parent