[feel free to send me somewhere else or tell me that it doesn’t work like that]

As some fingerprinting test sites show, I put myself into a distinct minority by simple useragent info alone. But may I somehow replicate not the behavior, but the appearance of an existing huge web crawler?

My inspiration is in how crypto-crime liked and wanted more transactions on the net, because the bigger the volume and amount, the less every single transaction stand out.

Web crawlers are a frequent source of noise, so unless it overwhelms the system and gets banned (the downside of such masking is obvious), said masking may probably get you filtered off as unsignificant activity not to track at all as it’s pointless.

Does it make any sense to pretend you are a robot? And if that’s so, how to do just that correctly? I’m proficient at failing captchas but I am the opposite on subjects about web tech and web surveiliance.

  • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    It probably makes more sense to pretend you’re the same as everyone else, which is exactly what librewolf does with resist fingerprinting.