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Re:Detecting PhantomJS-based visitors by nkozyra on Friday January 16, 2015 @03:49PM (#8901607)
I doubt any serious search engine is literally using PhantomJS, so I wouldn't see this as a huge problem.

Google is in all likelihood using V8 directly and is explicit about who it is. In fact, most legitimate search engine spiders are.

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Re:Detecting PhantomJS-based visitors by joshstrange on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:56PM (#8901989)
I agree, I was speaking more on trying to block crawlers that look like browsers in general, sorry that wasn't more clear.
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