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Try updating your web browser, as sites often flag outdated user agent strings hard-coded in many bots/spiders.

Have a nice day, =3




I am sure that bots/spiders use the very best and latest and least suspicious user agent strings.


Some bad actors do indeed use ancient UA strings.


So do some users. Thanks for banning me.


The captcha trigger events on many sites will often keep nagging/blocking people till they update.

Don't take this trend personally friend, as if we see a fake iPhone sporting bandwidth >1300Mbps+... than the host is getting permanently banned anyway.

Have a wonderful day, =3




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