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That was my assumption as well, but the author makes a good case for it being an Akamai bot detection script designed for mobile responsive sites, and inappropr
by ericskiff 3y ago
That was my assumption as well, but the author makes a good case for it being an Akamai bot detection script designed for mobile responsive sites, and inappropriately implemented on desktop by these big sites.
- TomK32 3y agoBad code being copied from stackoverflow was my first guess as well.
- buro9 3y agoThat is still fingerprinting. Bots will either all have the same (or a low diversity of) fingerprint, or if not then they will have the same randomisation techniques to mask the fingerprint. Some of the additional browser features that access devices do reveal the most trivial way to determine "this is not a bot as bots don't have this fingerprint". Of course that has implications, if privacy makes you look like a bot (it does), then the web has more friction the more private one is.
- bombcar 3y agoIf you want to experience that, download Brave, open a Tor window, and try to do anything online. Now you’re playing botsimulater 2023.
- toastal 3y agoOr download the Tor Browser?
- didntcheck 3y agoI just use an "ordinary" consumer VPN service and it's bad enough. It really seems to have ramped up in the past two years, and now it's a daily occurrence to find a site which won't even serve me a response body when I connect via VPN