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> Chris Siebenmann theorizes that “it’s a large scale campaign by a single abusive crawler by people who can afford to obtain a lot of servers at a lot of different hosting providers”, rather than a widespread rise in popularity for an old trick.

And apparently also thinks every person using an older browser version is a bot, I guess.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-bad/cspace-old-browser....

I don't understand why the page even links to other stuff... I can't access those either because they just redirect back to that page

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  • > Chris Siebenmann theorizes that “it’s a large scale campaign by a single abusive crawler by people who can afford to obtain a lot of servers at a lot of different hosting providers”, rather than a widespread rise in popularity for an old trick.

    And apparently also thinks every person using an older browser version is a bot, I guess.

    https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-bad/cspace-old-browser....

    I don't understand why the page even links to other stuff... I can't access those either because they just redirect back to that page

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