Protecting user identity against Silhouette

Re:Protecting user identity against Silhouette by Operyl on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:01PM (#18021337)

So that explains why I’ve noticed twitter stopped working with view-source a bit ago. I was curious as to why it required to redirect on itself, or a valid referrer from itself, before letting me get anywhere.

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Re:Protecting user identity against Silhouette by VirenM on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:29PM (#18021476)

Another reason for the redirect would be to mitigate the relentless web scraping which occurs. Some people just don't want to connect their apps with keys.

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Re:Protecting user identity against Silhouette by Rjevski on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:53AM (#18023505)

Any malicious scraper can defuse this by sending the proper referrer header.

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