2023-05-09 UTC
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bkil aaronpk rubenwardy [snarfed] : I know of a white label gratis PHP hosting provider who protects against spam, abuse and misuse of their web hosting offering by only serving web pages to a visitor who enables cookies and JavaScript and has a sort of tongue in cheek checking for it before first page load. That breaks most M2M interactions. Anyway, all such techniques basically try to do a form of browser detection to tell apart a bot coded by hand vs. one