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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most semi and fully legitimate bots use a custom user agent.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months 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.