From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Sedach Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:17:44 -0700 Message-ID: <87369153c7.fsf@t510.orion.oneofus.la> References: <87lfmx8frv.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <873694mu9f.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <20200417025514.5gotmp6vlvg3v25x@E15-2016.optimum.net> <87h7xio7dw.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <20200417085716.vbfkk5ibchc74ev5@E15-2016.optimum.net> <20200417093538.GB3844@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="24213"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.3.10; emacs 26.2 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 21:20:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jPWWy-0006Aj-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:20:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51060 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPWWy-0003iW-0c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPWWc-0003iF-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPWWa-0001Wm-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from forward100o.mail.yandex.net ([37.140.190.180]:41586) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPWWa-0001PL-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mxback15j.mail.yandex.net (mxback15j.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1619::91]) by forward100o.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 2D0084AC044D; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:19:36 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: from sas8-b61c542d7279.qloud-c.yandex.net (sas8-b61c542d7279.qloud-c.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:c1b:2912:0:640:b61c:542d]) by mxback15j.mail.yandex.net (mxback/Yandex) with ESMTP id ORVeHFEbkH-JZN808uQ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:19:36 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=oneofus.la; s=mail; t=1587151176; bh=tMJzjdJTfOr9R6z2ICSwIXxKUrsUbETYBozQ9j/HZK8=; h=In-reply-to:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:References:Message-ID; b=fCFTQmUu7OQ7RX+BvzZAnqc7shtJ6mjFTj0CbjOVPApXP3TAVB/P9bYCO3ZoxEJXa wIC6af2g7moDdi7KW3I2Txjs42wk+Do8Vyo5Nxea6uD4T8cuy6xVXf37Ajs7QWg+G7 89PW64br14gxGSlq5nbbXKT3RD8oHMmAKY4y8bA0= Authentication-Results: mxback15j.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@oneofus.la Original-Received: by sas8-b61c542d7279.qloud-c.yandex.net (smtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id pg0ZGjfelO-JY44Vd0b; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:19:35 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) In-reply-to: <20200417093538.GB3844@tuxteam.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 37.140.190.180 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122872 Archived-At: 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