cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/50677034
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for recommendations for an Android Fediverse client that does not send user-agent information (device or client details) to servers. Ideally, it should support both Mastodon and Lemmy, or other Fediverse platforms as well.
Could you explain the use case? I don’t quite understand the background. Now that AIs are flooding the instances, some admins are blocking these kinds of requests.
Could you explain the use case?
user agent is not essential for the servers, server does not need to know which client or device I am using.
Now that AIs are flooding the instances, some admins are blocking these kinds of requests.
What AI request?
generally the bots that scrape sites for information. One of the easiest ways to exclude them is to read the user agent.
yeah, this info isn’t necessary for technical operations, but some software uses it and shows the client under the post, for example; as an admin, that often helps me identify problems quickly.
Bots can easily fake their user agents, so using them to detect bots is not enough and mostly just puts regular users’ privacy at risk.
How about a Privacy Web-Browser? For example IronFox is a privacy-oriented Firefox fork. By default it does send an user agent string. But you can make it install addons, for example an addon to change the user agent string to something generic (and fake).
To be honest, this is a very specific method, and I don’t know which problem we’re facing. So this might as well be some A-B problem. So what are you trying to achieve?
Yes that would be an alternative. But I’m looking for a more user friendly client that could achieve the goal.
To be honest, this is a very specific method, and I don’t know which problem we’re facing. So this might as well be some A-B problem. So what are you trying to achieve?
user agent is not essential for the servers, server does not need to know which client or device I am using. So I don’t want any server to fingerprint users.
