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vageli
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Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
> It's laughably adorable to think it's actually solving a problem or helping in any way, the 'bad actors' it's trying to prevent probably have a work around anyway.
They do—changing your user agent is trivial.
sp332
on Jan 21, 2020
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Why would I want to send an incorrect user agent? There's no point having one if it's just going to lie anyway.
JohnFen
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I agree. I wish browsers would just stop sending a user agent string entirely. I don't think that I've sent an honest one in over a decade.
sp332
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044057
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They do—changing your user agent is trivial.