• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    UserAgents while odd do give the webserver some knowledge of the client capabilities. Try setting your UserAgent to ie6 and see how much of the internet breaks.

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      11 months ago

      Most sites will do live inspection of browser capabilities rather than using the user agent to grok capabilities, simply because user agent is hardly reliable.

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      11 months ago

      The user agent language is because reddit requires bots to have a custom user agent identifying the bot when using the API. I don’t think it’s about browser capabilities. This is the screen they give to unknown bots, they must have adjusted rules to count any IPs registered to a cloud/hoster or VPN as a bot by default out of paranoia of third party apps and scrapers.