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All of a sudden my browser starts telling me the page isn't working and poal.co didn't send any data. No matter if I try another browser. Still the same result. Any idea what's going on?

All of a sudden my browser starts telling me the page isn't working and poal.co didn't send any data. No matter if I try another browser. Still the same result. Any idea what's going on?

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I've noticed Poal is very picky about User-Agent. You can get blocked by a single request if the User-Agent isn't exactly right.

That's incorrect. Poal doesn't care about User-Agent from real browsers. Unless you're using a scrapper/spider/bot and try to data-mine.

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I get blocked consistently on Chrome unless I modify the UA. But I am not using the latest browser version. Maybe there is a minimum version requirement. Don't know, but I had to spoof my UA, otherwise I always get blocked. Never did any data mining. Very weird.

Example. This one gets me instantly banned:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36 QIHU 360EE

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That's the UA used by Chinese scrappers.