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Concerns About Accessing the Blog with Outdated Browsers

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11mo ago· 2 min readenNews

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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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You're using a suspiciously old browser

To reduce the load on Wandering Thoughts I'm experimenting with (attempting to) block all of them, and you've run into this.

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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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