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0 pointsunderyx11y ago0 comments

He can specify his own User-Agent string. If he sends the user agent 'silkroadparserbot v0.0.1' with every request, that is going to provide no information at all.

Even if this wasn't, did you think that after one change of UA he would be getting more 'uniquely identifiable' with each new request sent?

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Havoc11y ago

You're missing my point. Have a look at what the EFF has to say (with cool test too):

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

underyxOP11y ago

I did know about this before, and I suspected that you were referring to this earlier. None of this is applicable to a scraper.

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