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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 10:59:49 JST feld
   Loose lips sink ships
   
   If you know the precise technical details of what is required to not get flagged you destroy their empire and allow tons of attacks, scrapers, bots, etc to roam free again.
   
   All roads lead to hell
   
   RT: https://social.lansky.name/users/hn50/statuses/114169440302082164
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 11:20:29 JST dilbert 1

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     @feld yeah this seems unavoidable. sometimes secrecy is the only way to protect something
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 11:37:17 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @sun @feld what's even funnier is that there is zero difference between instrumented (i.e., headless) FF and "normal" FF.

     In two instances over a span of three years, I've pulled data from CF'd websites using headless FF without issue.

     So from my perspective, all these obstacles CF has created are all for naught.

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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 11:38:01 JST dilbert 1

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     @eriner @feld i think it depends on the site's cf settings because i've still had issues doing this on some manga sites
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 11:45:37 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @sun @feld It's possible things have changed "recently" too, on CFs end or Mozilla's, as my experience is from '19-21.

     That said, it will always be possible to instrument a browser in a way that is undetectable to CF, so the whole thing is retarded.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 11:45:37 JST feld

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     @eriner @sun Then why aren't more people doing it?