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"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in message news:vc3di3$1bmhk$3@dont-email.me...

On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:27:22 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:

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You're confused. The attackers aren't using Wget, but they are
*claiming* to be WGet.

But that long list of user agents being blocked that you previously
mentioned did not include wget.

I don't block WGet myself, I haven't seen enough abuse. There's more from
Meta and Amazon, and I probably shouldn't block them, either. (Meta and
Amazon both have crawlers that ignore requests for throttling, I know some webmasters block them for that reason.)

But I'm sure that other webmasters have different experiences. I don't find
it surprising when anything is blocked anymore (although blocking Firefox seems a bit much).

Randy.


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