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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by lmm on Monday January 11, 2016 @04:31AM (#10879790)
Wget uses its own user-agent by default (Wget/x.y.z (linux-gnu)), not no header, so that's more likely cloudflare or sites specifically blocking wget.
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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by x0 on Monday January 11, 2016 @10:28PM (#10885395)
Actually for the longest time, I had in my .wgetrc, user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (etc etc etc)". It was a valid user agent. And Cloudflare was blocking that. Turns out if you wrap the actual user agent in quotes in your .wgetrc, wget doesn't strip them off, so cloudflare was seeing User-Agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (etc etc etc)", ie. with the quotes. And it was rejecting that.
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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by lmm on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @08:26AM (#10887228)
Fair enough - but if it rejects that it would probably reject 10 random characters too
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