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 This batch right there does since its at the tail end of an 8 hour session of banning everything that connected to the site. The guy does indeed rotate user agents on his bots, I've seen him masquerade as Netscape Navigator 5 at one point, which was impressive since the browser was never released. 
 

        map $http_user_agent $baduseragents {
                default                                                     0;
                "~Trident/[1-7]\."                                          1;
                "~Chrome/(([1-9]{1})|([0-7]{1}[0-9]{1})|(7[0-9]{1}))\."     1;
                "~YaBrowser/(([1-9]{1})|([1-9]{1}[0-8]{1}))\."              1;
                "~Firefox/(([1-9]{1})|([0-7]{1}[0-9]{1})|(8[0-9]{1}))\."    1;
                "~EdgA?/(([1-9]{1})|([0-7]{1}[0-9]{1})|(8[0-6]{1}))\."      1;
                "~Version/(([1-9]{1})|([1-9]{1}[0-1]{1}))\."                1;
        } 
 @anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 @fzorb @pistolero Doesn't this cover every permutation of Chrome Firefox or Edge?