Concerns About Accessing the Blog with Outdated Browsers
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Summary
The article discusses the issue of users accessing a blog with old browsers that are flagged as suspicious due to anti-crawler precautions. The author mentions a surge in high volume crawlers using old browser user agents, particularly Chrome, in early 2025.
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To reduce the load on Wandering Thoughts I'm experimenting with (attempting to) block all of them, and you've run into this.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access
some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or
CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately
you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider
suspicious, most
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