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You'll need web scrapping abilities :) The point is: You always use the same gadgets to browse the internet. There are a lot of parameters that can be used to

You'll need web scrapping abilities :) The point is: You always use the same gadgets to browse the internet. There are a lot of parameters that can be used to identify you. A few are Browser window dimensions Language set to standard Resolution of your screen History of visited pages (as much it can be used to Agent Version Installed add-ons .... ... So, that's one point where you can start to act at. With python + Selenium it's possible to have a browser with modifiable User Agent, with head, headless, different window dimensions, languages and and and.. this can be automated. Also, if you're at web scraping, you usually use proxy servers with different IPs. That could be useful. On the other side, you have your accounts at the service providers. For example google. Google knows what you searching for and what you visit, how long, if it's a revisiting.. and so on.. To poison that you'll need to make it impossible for Google to filter out what you really need.. but for that you need to log in to your account. So with web scraping it's possible to poison the IPs, the search terms, the identification of you by utilizing the browser properties. But I ask myself, what does it bring you? You poison your accounts with all the web services you use. You need a lot of time to setup your "poisoning" Workflow. But the yield is equal to nothing. And, google wants to end the tracking of individuals (ye ye... Who believes that???) by having grouped cohorts. That has to be implemented as a plug-in used by a lot of people. If it's only you, then it won't change anything on the tracking/interpretation by trackers. To much work for an individual :)

reacharavindh 4y ago
Yes, I possess web scraping abilities and a decent scripting ability in Python :-) What does it bring me? Tickles. Joy that I wasted the time and money of somebody who paid for it. Fun time scripting in Python and who knows, some ideas might come out of it. The last I touched selenium was when I was at grad school a decade ago. Is that still the way to go?! I was hoping the art would have grown leaps and bounds by now. Is there any way to automate user actions on existing browser window.. as in - injecting mouse and keyboard inputs on my already open (and logged in) Firefox tab to say procedurally click on all emails in my inbox.. ?
- theGeatZhopa 4y ago
  It's being a while for me, too. I remember, there was some add-on for Firefox, which can be used with python to automate actions. It was some test suite framework for web testing. But, having done a quick Google search, didn't find it again. On the other side.. when using selenium with a f.e. Firefox driver, it is possible to fire up an instance and use it like ordinary Browser doing logins and whatever. While being on webpages in question, it's possible to run python and interactively automate things on that very site. It's already loaded, so it's possible to interact with it. 1. Fire up an instance 2. Login to Amazon 3. Have a script doing searches with arbitrary Keywords on the fly / and/ or scrap the information needed. That's what I did with stocks. I login into the service providers and let the script do the searches for the stocks, scraping the data, save it into db. If you leave that scraping data out, then you'll have a webrobot :) Nice Project btw.. "just sh*t into someone's soup making a beautifulsoup" :)

reacharavindh 4y ago

Yes, I possess web scraping abilities and a decent scripting ability in Python :-) What does it bring me? Tickles. Joy that I wasted the time and money of somebody who paid for it. Fun time scripting in Python and who knows, some ideas might come out of it. The last I touched selenium was when I was at grad school a decade ago. Is that still the way to go?! I was hoping the art would have grown leaps and bounds by now. Is there any way to automate user actions on existing browser window.. as in - injecting mouse and keyboard inputs on my already open (and logged in) Firefox tab to say procedurally click on all emails in my inbox.. ?

theGeatZhopa 4y ago
It's being a while for me, too. I remember, there was some add-on for Firefox, which can be used with python to automate actions. It was some test suite framework for web testing. But, having done a quick Google search, didn't find it again. On the other side.. when using selenium with a f.e. Firefox driver, it is possible to fire up an instance and use it like ordinary Browser doing logins and whatever. While being on webpages in question, it's possible to run python and interactively automate things on that very site. It's already loaded, so it's possible to interact with it. 1. Fire up an instance 2. Login to Amazon 3. Have a script doing searches with arbitrary Keywords on the fly / and/ or scrap the information needed. That's what I did with stocks. I login into the service providers and let the script do the searches for the stocks, scraping the data, save it into db. If you leave that scraping data out, then you'll have a webrobot :) Nice Project btw.. "just sh*t into someone's soup making a beautifulsoup" :)