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by jsbdk 1806 days ago
>By making sites request this information rather than simply always sending it like the User-Agent header currently does, browsers gain the ability to deny excessively intrusive requests when they occur.

Browsers can just not send a UA header
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tremon 1806 days ago
I tried this. It breaks a surprisingly large number of sites (or perhaps not-so-surprisingly), and good luck trying to beat Google's captcha without a User-Agent header.
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avian 1806 days ago
Good luck trying to beat ReCaptcha if you're doing anything that puts you outside of the normal web browser behavior as imagined by Google's Algorithm.

If User Agent Client Hints become the new normal, I'm sure anyone excessively denying requests will be flagged in the same way.

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