- cross-posted to:
- programming@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- programming@programming.dev
That ain’t clickbait, Xe Iaso’s personally-made anti-scraping measure (originally made to deal with Amazon overloading their git server) has ended up being used by the literal United Nations.
I recommend reading the full blogpost, its a wild ride.
Why do people think this appplies only to Firefox? Is it because it’s checking for “Mozilla” in the UA string? Might wanna check what their own browser uses (I don’t care what browser you have, it probably has “Mozilla” in the user agent string)