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Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers

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545 points mmh0000 | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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bossyTeacher ◴[03 Apr 25 17:39 UTC] No.43573002[source]▶
Cool tool but it shouldn't matter whether the client is a browser or not. I feel sad that we need such a tool in the real world
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brutal_chaos_ ◴[03 Apr 25 17:59 UTC] No.43573216[source]▶
You may enter our site iff you use software we approve. Anything else will be seen as malicious. Papers please!

I, too, am saddened by this gatekeeping. IIUC custom browsers (or user-agent) from scratch will never work on cloudflare sites and the like until the UA has enough clout (money, users, etc) to sway them.

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DrillShopper ◴[03 Apr 25 18:25 UTC] No.43573509[source]▶
This was sadly always going to be the outcome of the Internet going commercial.

There's too much lost revenue in open things for companies to embrace fully open technology anymore.

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1. everfrustrated ◴[04 Apr 25 16:53 UTC] No.43585013[source]▶
Wait until you hear many antivirus/endpoint software block "recent" domain names from being loaded. According to them new domains are only used by evil people and should be blocked.