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isiahl
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On the Future of 12ft
But I could change my clients User Agent to match the Google Crawler?
dreamcompiler
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Nope. Because your IP address is not one of Google's. This trick worked years ago but not today.
donkarma
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use a GCP instance
eminence32
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I'm pretty sure that CGP instances don't allocate IP addresses from the same range as google crawlers.
See also:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
lmm
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Sure, and then you've got a cat-and-mouse game with all the other ways that sites can fingerprint you.
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