I've spent a lot of time building datamint.xyz, and dealing with user agents, datacenter IPs, and VPNs gets pretty tricky. What works right now is a fork of the latest Firefox with anti-fingerprinting patches, paired with a high-quality residential proxy network with clean IPs. Even the basic setup needs 11+ code-level patches, and there are still a few edge cases, but this setup should cover 99% of cases.

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thisismyanon2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you for escalating the arms race that's currently destroying the internet. I can't look at the Apple user forums, my health insurance company's portal, pay my county taxes, browse Digikey and Mouser, view Github or whatever forge, etc. etc. without having to jump through Cloudflare or Anubis garbage designed to block your abusive behavior.

I'm just overflowing with joy that you're comfortable wasting my time and money.

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stavros 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Even if it's not the GP, if there's profit to be made, somebody will do it. I was reminded of the power of economic motives the other day, when it turned out someone bought an entire trustworthy reseller just so they could compromise the Ledger supply chain by including a tiny eSIM module that OCRed the screen and transmitted the seed.

Incentives are crazy powerful.

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matkoniecz 33 minutes ago | parent [-]

> if there's profit to be made, somebody will do it

Not always! With sufficiently powerful barriers it can be blocked at least in part.

Shaming awful people is one of available tools.

Or at least not praising them for making small profit at huge costs to others.

	▲	stavros 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Can't argue with doing what we can.

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stev1983 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here’s what is says on their site: “Courtesy backoff Adaptive backoff keyed to target response codes. When a target returns 429 or 503, we back off immediately, so our fleet never applies denial-of-service pressure to a site.” By the time you get the error you have already crashed the site. Geez.

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latexr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have to agree with the (sarcastic) sibling comment. You’re essentially making everyone’s life worse in the name of personal profit.

Please stop. The last thing we need in the world is more greed and selfishness.

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lejalv 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Since when have moral appeals worked against the central feature of capitalism?

Only strong regulation can help.

	▲	matkoniecz 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Shaming awful people is one of available tools. Or at least not praising them for making small profit at huge costs to others. Also, it is useful as coordination method, enabling passing laws outlawing some behaviors. (and I am not able to legislate-via-http while posting such comment is easy)