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		bovermyer on March 20, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companie... The User-Agent was not random; that's how I was able to block them this time.

szszrk on March 20, 2025 [–]

But they were far from honest, if, as you say, crawlers impersonate real users and their browsers.

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