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Have you seen user agent strings?

Every browser pretends to be all the browsers before it to get around restrictions on who can see/render content.

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ab5tract|2 years ago

Your point is as nonsensical as the user agent strings themselves.

It's not copy protection. It may change the structure and content of the page that is sent but that is not copy protection.

daurnimator|2 years ago

> It's not copy protection. It may change the structure and content of the page that is sent but that is not copy protection.

It is though!

Often news websites use the user agent to detect e.g. the google crawler, and allow google to index the contents of news articles; but then throw up a paywall when anyone with a normal browser shows up.

I recall some news websites tried to threaten people making browser extensions with the DMCA/CFAA as they considered it working around their copy protection to illegally gain access to their content.