Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cooper12 2009 days ago
Setting your user agent would only be considered hacking by the same people who think the Internet is a series of pipes. The browsers themselves copy each other's user agents for interoperability, so it's far past the point that changing it to look like another agent would be considered devious.
1 comments

Yeah, but on the POV of whoever runs the network, circumventing such blocks is "abuse"