i think making the case of "you are acting (sending web requests) while knowingly identifying as another legal entity (and criminally/libelously/etc)" shouldn't be toooo hard

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n1xis10t 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Seems like, but there are tons of things that forge request headers all the time, and I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone getting in legal trouble for it. Now I think most of these are scrapers pretending to be browsers, so it might be different I don’t know.

	▲	owl57 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And most of them are pretending to be Chrome. If Google had a good case against someone reusing their user agent, maybe they would already have sued? Or maybe not. Got some random bot from my server logs. Yeah, it's pretending to be Chrome, but more exactly: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" I guess Google might be not eager to open this can of worms.