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> The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users

How does this happen?

>>irishc+(OP)
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.

>>Bender+I3
some humans also try their best to make themselves look like bots...

>>arccy+Fc
beep boop.

>>irishc+(OP)
Last week if you are using a VPN + a browser that limits fingerprinting, you were likely to see error messages accessing HN.

>>arccy+Fc
You're absolutely right!

>>irishc+(OP)
Every filter process has false positives and false negatives, especially when crawlers are trying to fake their status.

>>arccy+Fc
lol