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by hansvm 637 days ago
> filtering out bots

For all but the most advanced of bots, the only such filtering comes from something as simple as a user-agent or other maybe some other header fingerprinting. What percentage of bots even bother to switch from the default of "python-requests/2.25.0" so that they might be detectable as Linux?

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If it's 1% of bots that switch, it could still be fairly meaningful when tracking hits.