Big spike in "browser" downloads yesterday (2026-02-24 utc) from a variety of networks that mostly send bot traffic.
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Big spike in "browser" downloads yesterday (2026-02-24 utc) from a variety of networks that mostly send bot traffic.
Chrome/Edge/Firefox. Why do crawlers even send Edge uas? Makes them _more_ sus.
Downloading shows that haven't received a single app download for weeks, which is a dead giveaway
Added a new stronger bot-id on these networks this morning in OP3 here in case any other podcast hosts want to cross-reference, the fact that it is so distributed is annoying:
https://github.com/skymethod/op3/blob/b2fb92828432790f373b67a553e75284daf7d065/worker/backend/bots.ts#L39
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Big spike in "browser" downloads yesterday (2026-02-24 utc) from a variety of networks that mostly send bot traffic.
Chrome/Edge/Firefox. Why do crawlers even send Edge uas? Makes them _more_ sus.
Downloading shows that haven't received a single app download for weeks, which is a dead giveaway
Added a new stronger bot-id on these networks this morning in OP3 here in case any other podcast hosts want to cross-reference, the fact that it is so distributed is annoying:
https://github.com/skymethod/op3/blob/b2fb92828432790f373b67a553e75284daf7d065/worker/backend/bots.ts#L39@js Does the traffic look like it’s mostly aimed at a certain set of podcasts?
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