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anonymousiamyesterday at 8:50 PM3 repliesview on HN

Why not just change your user agent string?


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codedokodeyesterday at 11:00 PM

Because the site can compare the user agent with navigator.platform, which your browser fills with great care.

tardedmemeyesterday at 9:03 PM

It probably fingerprints the browser via TLS fingerprinting.

mschuster91yesterday at 9:09 PM

That's useless, in fact it makes you stand out even more. There are SDKs that can differentiate based on an awful lot of signals if your user agent corresponds to your actual browser version.