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[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Why? Isn't it likely that it'll just report e.g. "python-requests" for the user agent, and it's up to the server side to decide what that means?

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 6 points 10 hours ago

That user agent would make them easily identifiable and therefore blockable. It's more likely that they are trying to hide as a legitimate user.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

That will be labeled as "other" in those cases

[–] maj@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Just hard to believe 6%. That's a huge number. Hopefully it's true🤞