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Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh i can definitely see custom browsers being useful in that area. I remember the JavaScript navigator properties were always such a PITA as there was nothing you could really do to get around what they exposed

[โ€“] SerotoninSwells 1 points 10 hours ago

There's a whole world of tools you can use that do that for you now. It's easier than ever. To me it's concerning. The level of automation, coupled with a halfway decent LLM, can give you the ability to summon hordes of fake humans to social media. I can't help but think it's why X and Reddit don't use any kind of anti-bot solution.