Post #1878738
2026-04-30 12:32 UTC
The crazy measures people are taking to try to protect their web sites from scraper bots these days. There's the Debian list archives which are currently banning some user-agents that are in use by exotic web browsers like… their own packaged version of Firefox. But it gets worse…
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@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com 2026-04-30 12:33
Just now I've been banned from browsing a site and when I contacted them they said: "The firewall is flagging you because you're accessing that URL directly, without loading any other page on the site, no cookies and no ads either, which makes you look like a bot. Any thoughts on how you navigated to the page?" Someone in a public mailing list linked me to it. I have never visited that site before.