--- title: You're using a too-old browser | daily.dev description: A blog owner explains why visitors may be blocked from accessing their site, attributing it to anti-crawler measures targeting old browser user agents.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-re-using-a-too-old-browser-suxse8rme twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You're using a too-old browser | daily.dev og:description: A blog owner explains why visitors may be blocked from accessing their site, attributing it to anti-crawler measures targeting old browser user agents.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-re-using-a-too-old-browser-suxse8rme og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sUXse8RMe.png og:image:alt: You're using a too-old browser og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # You're using a too-old browser **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A blog owner explains why visitors may be blocked from accessing their site, attributing it to anti-crawler measures targeting old browser user agents. High-volume crawlers, often used for LLM training data collection, frequently spoof outdated Chrome user agents. The post also addresses edge cases for Inoreader, Feedly, Vivaldi, and archive.today users, offering workarounds and contact information for false positives. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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