A blog owner explains why visitors may be blocked from accessing their site. Due to a surge in high-volume crawlers using old browser user agents (especially old Chrome versions) — often to gather LLM training data — they've implemented blocks on suspiciously old user agents. The post addresses edge cases: Inoreader users seeing the block page incorrectly, Vivaldi users needing to change their User Agent Brand Masking setting, and archive.today users whose archival service uses old Chrome user agents and obfuscated IP addresses that are indistinguishable from malicious crawlers. The author recommends using archive.org as a better-behaved alternative.
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A special note to people using Inoreader (the feed reader)A special note for people using VivaldiA special note for people using archive.*Sort: