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		Aldo_MX 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and othe... Then you get burglars in your shop instead of legitimate customers. User Agents look the way they do because this is a recurring issue. A browser without network effects gets blocked, they look for a way to bypass the blocking, then they become mainstream and now the de-facto UA is larger than before.

TheRealPomax 10 months ago [–]

Fun fact: you can't steal paid software by faking a user agent, because that's not how sales work. But you can lose sales by blocking user agents.

And use your brain for a hot second will you? Bad actors don't use a rare user agent, they use the same Chrome user agent that everyone else uses.

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