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Meanwhile, the POV bots should be getting:
(I have to set it one up for my Fediverse stuff one of these days as well)
I keep seeing this on serious sites and it makes me happy
Such a weird thing that it essentially discriminates Mozilla based browsers though, I'd expect bots would follow the most-used-approach. So yeah, this does not make me happy..although the anime-girl kinda does
It doesn't discriminate Mozilla based browsers. It checks if the User-Agent string contains "Mozilla".
Due to historical reasons, every browser (and software pretending to be a browser) has "Mozilla" in it's User-Agent string.
This is a User-Agent string for Google Chrome on Windows 10:
Is it blocking you? I pretty much exclusively use Gecko at this point and don't have an issue yet.
What's the problem with Gecko browsers exactly? The only issue I have is disabling JShelter for new domains.