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it is trivial to spoof user-agent, if you want to stop a motivated scraper, you need a different solution that exploits the fact that robots use headless browser


> it is trivial to spoof user-agent

It's also trivial to detect spoofed user agents via fingerprinting. The best defense against scrapers is done in layers, with user-agent name block as the bare minimum.




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