From: Vladimir Sedach <vas@oneofus.la>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:17:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87369153c7.fsf@t510.orion.oneofus.la> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200417093538.GB3844@tuxteam.de>
tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>> "What might be more useful is to set variable w3m-add-user-agent to t,
>> and then set w3m-user-agent to some generic and popular user-agent
>> string."
>
> What I'd do is randomly select from a choice of, say, 100
> popular browser strings.
A while back I tried setting w3m-user-agent to a recent Firefox
user-agent string. Some websites (YouTube is one example I recall)
started returning different pages that assumed JavaScript and AJAX
and were no longer usable in emacs-w3m.
--
Vladimir Sedach
Software engineering services in Los Angeles https://oneofus.la
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-17 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 5:44 Browser Fingerprinting Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-04-15 19:19 ` Tomas Nordin
2020-04-17 1:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-04-17 7:46 ` Tomas Nordin
2020-04-17 2:55 ` [emacs-w3m:13608] " Boruch Baum
2020-04-17 3:33 ` [emacs-w3m:13609] " Emanuel Berg
2020-04-17 8:15 ` [emacs-w3m:13607] " Tomas Nordin
2020-04-17 8:57 ` [emacs-w3m:13611] " Boruch Baum
2020-04-17 9:35 ` [emacs-w3m:13607] " tomas
2020-04-17 19:17 ` Vladimir Sedach [this message]
2020-04-17 21:08 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-04-18 1:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-04-17 21:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-04-18 6:56 ` tomas
2020-04-18 10:12 ` Tomas Nordin
2020-04-19 1:26 ` Boruch Baum
2020-04-19 3:16 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-04-17 8:17 ` tomas
2020-04-17 19:31 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-04-19 1:21 ` Boruch Baum
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