This kind of sucks for people who have made automation scripts. It could also have consequences for site owners if it affects accessibility tools for disabled users. It could even be considered malicious under certain laws. If you use something like this you should also have an API.
Detect and crash Chromium bots with one weird trick (bots hate it!)
Submitted 4 weeks ago by wegbier@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://blog.castle.io/detect-and-crash-chromium-bots-with-one-weird-trick-bots-hate-it/
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GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Doesn’t affect AI scrapers much but stuff like yt-dlp.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago