Re:Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
by idle_zealot on Friday April 12, 2024 @05:52PM
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I guess it's less copy-protection and more access-control.
this is basically the "computer scientist" view of the world in https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23, especially the Monolith bit. spoofing UA could be legal in general or when done for interoperability but illegal when done with intent to bypass access control.
Re:Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
by beeboobaa3 on Saturday April 13, 2024 @12:16AM
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Right, the UA spoofing browsers perform is historically done to bypass sites not wanting to serve them content.
Well the UA spoofing I perform is done to bypass sites not wanting to serve me content.
Re:Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
by clemiclemen on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:56AM
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Those looking into the history or the user agent, and why it happens to advertise itself as Firefox, Safari and Chrome ate the same time, can look into this article: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/comment-pa...
If not, how could it be classed as copy-protection?
Edit: One other thing: if spoofing UA headers was a problem, all the browsers in the world would fall foul of it - because non-Mozilla browsers all say that they're Mozilla, and Opera said it was IE, and Chrome said it was Safari, and now a bunch of browsers say they're Chrome - at the same time as saying they're Mozilla. Except it's more complicated than that.