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In 2020, the only way for netzidents to do get what they naturally deserve is by hacking.
by neiman 6y ago
In 2020, the only way for netzidents to do get what they naturally deserve is by hacking.
- bzb6 6y agoHow do you “naturally deserve” to access the contents of the Twitter website?
- morsch 6y agoI agree, that's just cruel. No one deserves being subjected to Twitter.
- devmor 6y agoSince it became a dissemination service for public officials. The moment it became illegal for the US President to block people on Twitter, it should have become illegal for Twitter to restrict access to information to the public, for the same reason.
- cooper12 6y agoSetting your user agent would only be considered hacking by the same people who think the Internet is a series of pipes. The browsers themselves copy each other's user agents for interoperability, so it's far past the point that changing it to look like another agent would be considered devious.
- nextaccountic 6y agoYeah, but on the POV of whoever runs the network, circumventing such blocks is "abuse"
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agoThe original web browser, NCSA Mosiac, encouraged users to change their User-Agent string, so-called "spoofing" or "masquerading". https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic/master/mosaic-spoof-agents https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic/mas... The User-Agent header is not mandatory and was never intended to be used by tech companies for denying access or fingerprinting. It was supposed to be used, at the user's discretion, to help with interoperability problems. RFC7231 specifically refers to user-agent masquerading by the user as a useful practice. It explicitly discourages using this header as a means of supposed user identification, e.g., fingerprinting. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3