Re:Browser Hyphenation Dictionary Names the OS It Runs On
by JSR_FDED on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:02AM
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It’s wild that a single DOM read can tell which OS you’re running based on how the browser hyphenates words.
Details like this give you an appreciation for how hard it is to mimic a real user if you’re trying to automate web tasks like scraping when the site doesn’t want to be scraped.
Details like this give you an appreciation for how hard it is to mimic a real user if you’re trying to automate web tasks like scraping when the site doesn’t want to be scraped.