Trim UA block list for false positives#189

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Remove overly greedy entry "Not", which blocks every phone or tablet in the popular Redmi Note series of phones and tablets, made by Xiaomi: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmi#Redmi_Note_Series>
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Remove "PyCurl" entry, which is just a Python wrapper for cURL, and nothing inherently malicious
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Remove LWP entries - this is just Perl's normal request library
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Remove overly greedy entry "Leap", which blocks every app with "MobileApp" in its UA string
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Remove overly greedy entry "Ninja", which blocks every request from Microsoft Teams. Their agent uses UA strings like this:
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Remove overly greedy entry "oBot", which matches (among any other type of robot) "UptimeRobot", which is supposed to be limited - not blocked
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Remove overly greedy entry WEBDAV, which can (and in many cases will) block legitimate WebDAV clients correctly identifying as such. WebDAV is a very widely used official HTTP standard, and is the …
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Remove "Bullseye" entry. This is the codename for Debian 11 (the current stable release), and the version codename string is used as part of UA for several of its packages, such as Python's pip
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Remove "Siteimprove" - this is a paid service for assessing your site, in terms of features such as accessibility. If you're receiving requests from them, it's likely because you asked (and paid) t…
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Remove "archive.org_bot" - this is Archive.org, a non-profit working to archive digital content and create a library for current and future generations. They are good guys, and if one person is ann…
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Remove "Netcraft" entry. Netcraft is an online intelligence company fighting cybercrime on a plethora of different fronts. When they do mine technical data, it's for a good cause, that benefits all…
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Remove "Shodan" entry. Shodan is an extremely powerful tool for vulnerability scanning. It doesn't do harm, it merely discovers weakness in your setup, which makes it possible for you to fix them. …
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Remove various Chinese entries said to be legit - actual search engine spiders, and embedded views in apps. Closes #133
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Remove "Exabot" entry, this is said to be a good and respectful bot - <https://www.exalead.com/search/webmasterguide#does-the-exalead-robot-respect-the-rules-recorded-in-a-robotstxt-file-and-the-ro…
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Remove "Mojeek" entry, this is said to be a good and respectful bot - <https://www.mojeek.com/bot.html>. Closes #107
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