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Re:Browser Hyphenation Dictionary Names the OS It Runs On by JSR_FDED on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:02AM (#49007010)
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.

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