Comment on: The Webcrawling Robot Swarm War is On!
> If I cannot block all robots, I want to at least be able to identify them to prevent my script from counting robot-generated page views as being from real people
Nginx & Apache2 log the user agent, ip and page accessed. Web crawlers usually add things like "bing bot" to their headers. I still respect your other justifications for blocking the crawlers.
edit: OP is using Lighttpd
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07 Jul 2021 13:34
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Google Pay will act as COVID vaccine passport on Android
13 7 comments 02 Jul 2021 22:29 u/topmost (..) in g/technologyComment on: Flying Robo Harvester Picks Ripe Fruit, Set To Displace Humans
why did they need drones to do this?
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Comment on: A German man is keeping $60 million in bitcoin from police by never revealing his password
> like the ability to be anonymously owned and securely transferred
not really the case anymore unless he mined it himself or something
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Comment on: Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year
Can you elaborate? Do you just know your neighbors wifi password or something?
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