Comment by hooverd
It's extra work for scrapers. They pretend to be upstanding citizens (Chrome UA from residential IPs). You can more easily block those.
It's extra work for scrapers. They pretend to be upstanding citizens (Chrome UA from residential IPs). You can more easily block those.
Well, “actually”, perhaps; “legitimately” is still a stretch.
A lot of scrapers are actually utilizing some malware installed on residential user's machines, so the request is legitimately coming from a chrome UA on a residential ip.