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    The article focuses on techniques that help bots spoof browsers, to make them impersonate a typical human visitor.

    It’s not obvious how this helps people protect themselves against surveillance while being online. Using python scripting is not a practical way to browse. But it’s handy to write scrappers.

    It’s certainly useful to misbehaving bots that try to evade anti-bots protection.