Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by fddddd on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:17PM
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i run non default browser settings (disable canvas and force my fonts)
i see captcha everywhere. and try to avoid when i can. basically if it is a comercial site, bye. but gov sites are using it too now.
from time to time i even get into captcha hellban. which should be criminal since they are used in gov sites. hellban is specially cruel as your entire IP is served the same 10 round of images infinitelly.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by aidenn0 on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:18PM
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I wonder how hard it would be to write a bot that would reliably hellban an IP. Then one could just drive around and get every open WiFi hellbanned.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by Inhibit on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:20AM
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I use a allow-only javascript setup. I've found that for the web browsing I do that cuts out essentially all extraneous junk. YMMV.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by aj3 on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:16PM
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Log into Google, Yandex, Facebook, etc. These could very well be throwaway accounts (with real profiles locked into Firefox Container Tabs for example). This seem to work even with VPNs and non-residential IPv6, so hopefully it helps.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by 0xdeadb00f on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:17PM
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Not sure if the parent comment has been edited, but they did say they're already "permanently logged in" to a bunch of the services in question.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by weinzierl on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:03AM
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That's the strange thing about it. Being logged into regularly used, long-standing, healthy, real accounts that have only ever been used totally legitimately doesn't seem to help at all. Quite to the contrary I fear to damage the reputation of my decade old accounts by using an unusual device.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by swiley on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:54AM
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That's pretty odd, I doubt it has anything to do with the architecture and more to do with weather or not you're logged into a Google account.
I don't have a google account and use a desktop Linux-based OS on my phone. I have to solve the same captchas there as on my desktop.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by bombcar on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:52PM
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Do you have IPv6 enabled? That seems to be a major contributor to the captchas I run into.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by vxNsr on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:58PM
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Why are you using yandex? Just curious, never heard of anyone outside of Russia using it, and even many Russians try to avoid it apparently.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by pphysch on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:55PM
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Why not? Diversify your techno-overlord portfolio beyond DARPA.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by adevx on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:16PM
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Also using yandex quite a bit. Especially around heavily censored topics like covid-19.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by esperent on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:11AM
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Can you give some examples of things you've been able to find out using Yandex that were censored on Google?
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by adevx on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @05:01PM
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Try searching for "possible negative long term effect of mrna vaccines". Google will show lists of fact-check sites, WHO approved all pro-vaccine results. Yandex will show alternative sites like childrenshealthdefense.org, www.naturalnews.com with a contrarian view. I am not saying these are trustworthy sites but I want to see various viewpoints and not have the search engine be the judge. I think mRNA vaccines could be a game changer, but I also want an open discussion about the risks, especially long term, as in say negative effects on newborns from mRNA vaccinated woman.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by vxNsr on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:27PM
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Interesting. Didn’t think about that… are you not worried about things getting censored in the other direction?
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
by adevx on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @05:08PM
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Absolutely, always consider potential bias and motivation when searching and judging content. I probably censor search results myself in the form of selective link-result clicking and phrasing of search queries :-)
Switching to a more common user agent recently helped only a little bit. At least that is what I believe, unfortunately I haven't done any measurements. It might well be that it helped not at all.
The irony is also that I'm permanently signed in to more services on this computer than on any other one in my household and that it is the only computer where cookies don't get purged regularly.
Also, I never used the RasPi for any automated tasks or anything else that could be interpreted as bot traffic.
The worst offender is Yandex, which is pretty much unusable because it let's me solve the captcha every few mouse clicks.
Any ideas how make a RasPi useable as a work computer?