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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course, nothing stops a bot from picking a user agent field that exactly matches a web browser.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nothing stops a bot from choosing to not read robots.txt

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Indeed, as has already been said repeatedly in other comments.