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by loph 297 days ago
this is related: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2845330/hundreds-of-chrome-e...

The TL;DR is that there are malicious browser plugins that make the browser into a web scraping bot.

I see this all the time in web server logs; it is recognizable as a GET on a deep link coming from some random IP, usually residential.