Fingerprinting is scarily accurate now, strangely. https://fingerprint.com/
Re:Blocked by Cloudflare
by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:14PM
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Somehow, it doesn't matter. Like the fact that the author shared non-repudiable identification information with the site also didn't matter and he was classified as a robot anyway.
Re:Blocked by Cloudflare
by stjohnswarts on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:01PM
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yeah, starting that that invisible pixels and cookie tracking are way in the past and unless you're using something like tor (and not changing the resolution) then they know who you are. I mean you can still block ads and cookies, but I figure they really do know who you are.
These bot detection systems tend to use all manner of imprecise statistical heuristics and weird fingerprinting.
Perhaps AegirLeet has a graphics card that a popular web scraper pretends to have. Maybe they're in a suspicious timezone. Maybe they've installed a font usually only found on a different operating system. Maybe I'm never blocked because I have an excellent IP reputation, due to regular visits to approved websites.