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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by rtpg on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:35AM (#30383418)
Not to be too dismissive of this, but for companies trying to just run a service and getting constantly bombarded by stuff like DDoS issues, Cloudflare and its ilk lets them service a large portion of "legitimate" users, compared to none.

I don't really know how you resolve that absent just like... putting everything behind logins, though.

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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by fake-name on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:31AM (#30384463)
What you're describing is solved by caching, not requiring JS crap.

So give me xxx minute old stale cached version. I'm fine with that.

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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by lmz on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:57AM (#30385141)
Until you get misbehaving users crawling every page.
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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by userbinator on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:41PM (#30390778)
Rate limiting works, and isn't discriminatory against "non-standard" clients.
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