Comment by wswope
3 years ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing - it’s always nice to learn about fingerprinting tricks and workarounds, from both a privacy and a “don’t unintentionally look like a bot” perspective.
What inspired the project?
3 years ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing - it’s always nice to learn about fingerprinting tricks and workarounds, from both a privacy and a “don’t unintentionally look like a bot” perspective.
What inspired the project?
Motivation is in the blog post: https://lwthiker.com/reversing/2022/02/17/curl-impersonate-f...
Good blog post. Stuff like this makes me wonder if by 2030 (1) the internet will mostly consist of machine generated content; (2) machines written by normal people in Python won't be authorized to access the machine-generated content anymore due to Protectify; (3) most client traffic will originate from Protectify's network, so people like bloggers won't have any visibility into whether their readers are humans or machines; (4) video compression algorithms will become indistinguishable from deepfakes; and (5) airborne pathogens will make alternatives to the above impractical.