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by smitty1e 1435 days ago
When everyone becomes adept at changing their user agent to beat these filters, what so these whiz kids do?
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I don't think it is user agent based. I think they just detected some js wasn't run by the browser.

I don't have any godaddy account to try it out but I very often get captcha to respond on on websites with a message saying my browsing has been flagged as possible bot access. I am using ghostery on firefox.

Cloudflare has started kicking people who forge or don't send their referrers. I'm pretty sure they'll ban you (based on customer configuration) if your user-agent doesn't match their fingerprinting/probing.