Ask HN: Why would www.economist.com block the Lynx UA?

Heykuki News

4 points

10 years ago

Using the default lynx User Agent and visiting economist.com gives a 403. changing it to "firefox" allows me to visit the site. Why would they do such a UA based filtering?

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