| ▲ | irishcoffee 13 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users How does this happen? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Bender 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How does this happen? Not the person you are asking. Bot operators have an incentive to make crawlers look as much like a human as possible so they do not get blocked. Some of them fail miserably and some nearly succeed. That makes it trivial to accidentally block a real person. I am personally fine with that given I do not pay for this site and have no SLA or contract with it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | pjc50 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Every filter process has false positives and false negatives, especially when crawlers are trying to fake their status. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ohhnoodont 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last week if you are using a VPN + a browser that limits fingerprinting, you were likely to see error messages accessing HN. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||