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m00dy • today at 7:29 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

I've spent a lot of time building datamint.xyz, and dealing with user agents, datacenter IPs, and VPNs gets pretty tricky. What works right now is a fork of the latest Firefox with anti-fingerprinting patches, paired with a high-quality residential proxy network with clean IPs. Even the basic setup needs 11+ code-level patches, and there are still a few edge cases, but this setup should cover 99% of cases.


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thisismyanon2 • today at 7:51 AM

Thank you for escalating the arms race that's currently destroying the internet. I can't look at the Apple user forums, my health insurance company's portal, pay my county taxes, browse Digikey and Mouser, view Github or whatever forge, etc. etc. without having to jump through Cloudflare or Anubis garbage designed to block your abusive behavior.

I'm just overflowing with joy that you're comfortable wasting my time and money.

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lukewarm707 • today at 11:15 AM

"Usage records — which endpoint was called, when, the credit cost, the status, and the target URL."

I would use it, but then the privacy policy says that you would store my search history. I simply want to use the internet in peace without being constantly recorded.

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stev1983 • today at 8:54 AM

Here’s what is says on their site: “Courtesy backoff Adaptive backoff keyed to target response codes. When a target returns 429 or 503, we back off immediately, so our fleet never applies denial-of-service pressure to a site.” By the time you get the error you have already crashed the site. Geez.

luckylion • today at 11:29 AM

Anti-fingerprinting is mostly there to be able to use the same browser across many requests, I assume?

I found that a slightly-modified firefox for more stealthy remote-control works fine and gets a pass on all automatic captchas I tested. but I don't do it at scale, I just wanted something to automate a particularly stupid website that I have to use.

Would love to see if my browser is detected -- any recommendations for tests to run?

latexr • today at 8:08 AM

I have to agree with the (sarcastic) sibling comment. You’re essentially making everyone’s life worse in the name of personal profit.

Please stop. The last thing we need in the world is more greed and selfishness.

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