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by davimack 3261 days ago
A truly obfuscatory browser: one in which everything sent to the server looked the same, regardless of which user, region, etc.
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vortico 3260 days ago
With addons which disable user agents, referrers, and other details, and by disabling Javascript, you can nearly achieve this with Firefox and Chrome. I've noticed that some website refuse to serve content without a user agent.
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swiley 3261 days ago
curl -H "" -o stuff.html && elinks stuff.html

I've been looking for a site I can run this on over TOR at random times for reading news but I haven't found one.

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dredmorbius 3260 days ago
Can elinks read from stdin?
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swiley 3260 days ago
links2 can, and both of them have --dump.

The nice thing about doing it like this is that the file persists on disk so viewing a page is decoupled from fetching it (which is nice for a lot of reasons.)

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dredmorbius 3260 days ago
Yeah, I may have done that once or twice myself.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/naya9wqdemiovuvwvoyquq

Why browsers don't dump to disk in a format that makes for easy rendering ... I don't know.

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