On: AI crawlers need to be more respectful

[EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK]

Exactly, I'm banned or captchaed from half of all web sites these days, because of the AI.

[Joel_Mckay → EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK]

Try updating your web browser, as sites often flag outdated user agent strings hard-coded in many bots/spiders.

Have a nice day, =3

[EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK → Joel_Mckay]

I am sure that bots/spiders use the very best and latest and least suspicious user agent strings.

[DamonHD → EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK]

Some bad actors do indeed use ancient UA strings.

[immibis → DamonHD]

So do some users. Thanks for banning me.

[Joel_Mckay → immibis]

The captcha trigger events on many sites will often keep nagging/blocking people till they update.

Don't take this trend personally friend, as if we see a fake iPhone sporting bandwidth >1300Mbps+... than the host is getting permanently banned anyway.

Have a wonderful day, =3