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dstiles

6:23 pm on Aug 15, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I am currently blocking a visitor to one of our web sites who is using the User-Agent...

BrightSign/5.1.46-td (XD1230) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Linux mips) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/537.4

From their SE results this claims to be...

"Solid State Digital Sign Controllers Without a PC"

and

"BrightSign HD and 4K media players for information displays, digital signage, message boards and network media player solutions"

I downloaded a PDF but neither it nor the web pages I looked at made any sense without knowing the actual context.

I submitted a form on their web site a few days ago saying they ought to redo the UA and got back "too many characters, try again". Which I did, asking them to email me for further details. Nothing so far.

It's still blocked here.

wilderness

7:52 am on Aug 16, 2015 (gmt 0)

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"BrightSign network"

The BrightSign Network is an affordable subscription-based content hosting and distribution service, providing the complete infrastructure to . . . .

dstiles

6:17 pm on Aug 16, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I got the impression from the PDF that the accessing device was a kind of PC replacement for media. I can see it being used in conjunction with (eg) cloud hosting.