Are Random User Agents Still Effective for Web Scraping and Anonymity?

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Wow, thanks for all the insights, everyone! I didn’t realize how much bot detection has evolved. I’ll definitely look into combining random user agents with proxy rotation and headless browsers.

I tried using `fake-useragent` yesterday, and it was super easy to set up. Still got blocked on a couple of sites though, so I’ll give residential proxies a shot next.

Quick question—anyone have experience with Puppeteer vs. Playwright? Which one’s better for mimicking real user behavior?

Cheers!

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