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by Havoc 4276 days ago
User Agents have proven to be (somewhat) uniquely identifiable under specific conditions so it seems like a reasonable precaution regardless of Silk Road configurations.
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underyx 4276 days ago
He can specify his own User-Agent string. If he sends the user agent 'silkroadparserbot v0.0.1' with every request, that is going to provide no information at all.

Even if this wasn't, did you think that after one change of UA he would be getting more 'uniquely identifiable' with each new request sent?

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Havoc 4274 days ago
You're missing my point. Have a look at what the EFF has to say (with cool test too):

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

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underyx 4272 days ago
I did know about this before, and I suspected that you were referring to this earlier. None of this is applicable to a scraper.
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