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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by homarp on Sunday August 27, 2023 @09:55AM (#37282758)
which is what https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate does: it's a special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by nwellinghoff on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:38PM (#37284284)
Can this be used as a proxy to your real browser? Can you paint the whole picture/setup for a noob?
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by cbsmith on Sunday August 27, 2023 @01:54PM (#37285051)
Presumably so. You'd just need to compile the curl-impersonate for the appropriate browser you want to impersonate, and then link it in to a proxy that used libcurl for its https traffic.
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