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by andrerm 2460 days ago
That's not what they said. For the record, they said:

> Identification of well known legitimate bots;

> Hand written rules for simple bots that, however simple, get used day in, day out;

> Our Bot Activity Detector model that spots the behavior of bots based on past traffic and blocks them; and

> Our Trusted Client model that spots whether an HTTP User-Agent is what it says it is.

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> Our Trusted Client model that spots whether an HTTP User-Agent is what it says it is. Well, instead of using curl scripts, crawlers will switch to Selenium and use a real scripted browser