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by shadowgovt 635 days ago
It's acceptable, but suspicious. Two standard deviations away from the median browser (and a lot more like the configuration of a scraper, which would get reloaded in some Docker instance frequently with a fresh empty cookie jar because storing data costs infrastructure).
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You mean Edge? Chrome stands a 65.2% ( 1 deviation ) Safari at 18.57% ( 2 deviations ), so Edge at 5.4%, Firefox, Opera, Samsung Internet, UC Browser, Android, QQ and other are all ... deviants?

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

I use Firefox nightly which does not even show up statistically...

Not sure if they're using user agent. Probably not because it's so easy to forge UA.

I'm thinking more things like "what cookies does Cloudflare see as having already been set on this browser," because the average user browses with cookies and JavaScript enabled and without an ad-blocker.

right, so using the heuristics libraries to determine if you were a bot you are probably already 65% bot, then if the threshold is 70% bot maybe you just need to tab really quick to an input and control-c your password and there you are.