Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic its TLS handshake

Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by oh_sigh on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:22PM (#30382115)

Maybe I'm just a techno-optimist, but I suspect big tech companies don't give a hoot about you running "unapproved" software, but rather care about their services being abused and "unapproved" software is just a useful signal that fails on a tiny percentage of total legit users.

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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by llampx on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:02AM (#30382304)

You are a lot more charitable than I am. I believe the big tech companies use dark patterns to get us to sign up, improve their metrics and hoover up our data.

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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by bayindirh on Friday February 18, 2022 @04:35AM (#30383798)

Just trying to keep services operational is a fine goal to pursue as an operator, but forcing users to small inbound funnels for the service is detrimental too. There needs to be better research to be done to allow simpler ways of operation to continue working.

A browser is becoming a universal agent by itself, but many people (maybe increasingly) use terminal to access to the resources, and stonewalling these paths are never OK in my book.

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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by saurik on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:18AM (#30382395)

This is a distinction without a difference.

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