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It's most likely for web scraper detection. State of the art was using video codec availability as fairly reliable data point, and I haven't seen audio being us
by synthmeat 7y ago
It's most likely for web scraper detection. State of the art was using video codec availability as fairly reliable data point, and I haven't seen audio being used for this. Quite interesting.
- jupp0r 7y agoWhat makes you think it would be for web scraper detection vs user fingerprinting?
- synthmeat 7y agoBecause they had a lot of trouble with sham sites generated by their content.
- icebraining 7y agoThey literally provide full website dumps of all the content: https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/01/23/stack-exchange-cc-data-now-hosted-by-the-internet-archive/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/01/23/stack-exchange-cc-data... (yes, the post is old, but they still update the archive).
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoIs there a difference? I mean, slightly different ends, but both very much benefit from fingerprinting.