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mikerg87 on May 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: 47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022...

> One-in-five bad bots used Mobile Safari as their browser of choice in 2022, up from 16.1% in 2021.

Being a neophyte. How does this work exactly? Is a JS payload that does something bad or an app using web view. Genuinely curious on this one

detaro on May 14, 2023 [–]

I'm assuming what they mean is "pretended to be Mobile Safari" (which is just setting the HTTP header for what you are to say that you are Safari)

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