alt Hacker News>Yes AI scrapers can easily spoof user-agent, but they fall out of date as the browser updates.
It’s a hell of a lot easier for a company to ensure that its scrapers all report the latest user agent string than it is to get everyone and their mother to update their browsers in a timely fashion.
yeah but unless everyone is checking the version, if it's just a handful of websites checking it, they don't.
and browsers forcibly auto-update