Setting user agent important ?

[Cyrax 2]

hi just starting to learn ubot again after long break so got a lot of catching up to do.

 

Do you think it's necessary or good practice to set the user agent to firefox or ie, to prevent the host webserver from scrutinizing our activity and raising flags.

 

or is the ubot browser seen as a normal browser and gets the same treatment. ?

 

thnx

[a2mateit 395]

It really just depends on the site you are trying to automate.

 

I have found that some sites are easier to automate if you set the user agent to a mobile one such as android or iphone...

 

While some sites I set to user Firefox user agent.

 

Really comes down to if you are having a hard time automating the site or not.  If so, then 1 of the first things I do is change the user agent and try again...

[Marton 48]

If you don't set user agent, the same user agent will be used as your default browser. So depending on what you do, you might not always need to change it.

[the_way 52]

there is a couple of functions somewhere on the forum that do random user agents. Use that, and don't worry bout anything. cause every little thing gonna be alright.