| ▲ | gruez a day ago |
| That's basically what security vendors like cloudflare does, except with even more fingerprinting, like a javascript challenge that checks the js interpreter/DOM. |
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| ▲ | walrus01 a day ago | parent [-] |
| JS to check user agent things like screen window dimensions as well, which legit browsers will have and bots will also present but with a more uniform and predictable set of x and y dimensions per set of source IPs. Lots of possibilities for js endpoint fingerprinting. |
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| ▲ | Fripplebubby 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | I also present a uniform and predictable set of x and y dimensions per source IPs as a human user who maximizes my browser window | | |
| ▲ | gruez 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Maximizing reduces the variations, but there's still quite a bit of variation because of different display resolution + scaling settings + OS configuration (eg. short or tall taskbars). | | |
| ▲ | walrus01 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or settings like auto-hide MacOS dock vs not auto hide, affecting the vertical size of the browser window. |
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