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BeefWellington
on March 21, 2023
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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought
WGET can be pretty trivially told to send custom headers.
no_time
on March 21, 2023
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Try to do that to a site with CF bot protection cranked up... Not happening without a custom build/custom ssl proxy that mimics the SSL fingerprint of Chrome.
harry8
on March 21, 2023
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CF blocks you hard simply for enabling "do not track" in settings. The discussion about how awful they are needs to be had.
mananaysiempre
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I haven’t seen a custom build of Wget, but for Curl there is curl-impersonate[1].
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https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate
bigfudge
on March 21, 2023
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It would be a lot of work to make it mimic a common profile though.
justinclift
on March 21, 2023
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That work was probably done once, years ago. Might need a few string tweaks every few years, which could be automated.
bigfudge
on March 21, 2023
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No, because any “RMS” set of headers would only be shared by the small number of nerds who care, fingerprinting us more accurately again.
steve1977
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Just setup a honey pot and use headers from there ;)
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