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url: bump user-agent #2218
url: bump user-agent #2218
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In theory this might help get less "are you a robot?" prompts? Bloomberg is at least one site this could be testing against, probably. |
Don't let me forget about this before the next release, whether it's 7.1.8 or 8.0.0. But I don't want to merge it until we're close to a release, so the UA string doesn't get too stale again waiting for a new package. We could also think about delegating this to a separate package users can update without needing a new Sopel release. PyPI has a surprisingly high number of packages dedicated to generating fake UAs. |
Could also just be a bot owner configurable asset? Like |
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wondering how high dgw is |
sleep-deprived enough to confuse #1986 for an IRC command patch |
Is that what you wanted, @dgw?? 🤔 |
Description
Update the user-agent string to Chrome 96, the 2nd most popular UA listed on
https://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/03/most-common-user-agents/
Checklist
make qa
(runsmake quality
andmake test
)