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That User-Agent won't trigger the block page you were experiencing.

No clue about the issues with Google, perhaps some feature detection going on?

Nope, it's Google trying to ban "embedded browser frameworks" - see https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5182 for details.

I used straight firefox and was still banned just fine. It didn't start in 2019 either. Chrome is their cash cow, if you don't use it, you're a liability.

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