Re: Google Chrome will be blocked from the proxy

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>]

> > I'm getting besieged with requests from random Chrome installations
> > everywhere, mostly for the root /gopher/gw over and over. I'm this close
> > to blocking Chrome at the user agent level. Before I do this, does someone
> > out there know what's going on? Is there some Chrome extension that's
> > malfunctioning?
> 
> Isn't the user agent normally forged by spammers' bots? I think this 
> could be the case rather than a malfunctioning extension.

Possibly. The IPs are all over the place, though, many from client PCs.
This doesn't rule out spammers taking systems over via malware, natch.

Since they're all currently spoofing Chrome/87, I've blocked that version
from using the proxy with a message to contact me. So far nothing. If I
still get nothing, then I might bounce it at the webserver level instead of
at the proxy level so it stops spamming my logs.

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