Getting traffic from aocr.org? That's ByteDance crawling your website
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Summary
A new crawler sending fake aocr.org referrers has been hitting websites since late September 2026. Its network fingerprint matches ByteDance's declared Bytespider crawler and its browser carries ByteDance-specific timing fields, with real servers traced to China Mobile in Shanxi.