While I don't think scrapers have legal action taken against them unless they become a major pain for the company, faking User-Agent strings has been painted as spoofing by lawyers, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/20926119/9044659" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/a/20926119/9044659</a> (very old example).<p>I wonder if employing these methods worsen the legality (or the lack of it thereof) associated with scraping.