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Blogger's server-side rules reclassify most 'browser' traffic as bots—without JavaScript

A blog operator built network and header-based rules on a Cloudflare Worker to sort incoming traffic without relying on JavaScript, and found that 277 of 372 requests bearing browser User-Agent strings were actually not genuine browsers—74.5% of the total. Comparing this edge-based counting with Cloudflare Web Analytics page loads over two days revealed persistent gaps between the two measurement methods, exposing bugs in the HTML-acceptance check and missing provenance markers, both since fixed.

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