Browser Hyphenation Dictionary Names the OS It Runs On

Browser Hyphenation Dictionary Names the OS It Runs On(scrapfly.dev)

3 points by joahnn_s 45 days ago | 1 comment

JSR_FDED 45 days ago |

It’s wild that a single DOM read can tell which OS you’re running based on how the browser hyphenates words.

Details like this give you an appreciation for how hard it is to mimic a real user if you’re trying to automate web tasks like scraping when the site doesn’t want to be scraped.

JSR_FDED 45 days ago |

It’s wild that a single DOM read can tell which OS you’re running based on how the browser hyphenates words.

Details like this give you an appreciation for how hard it is to mimic a real user if you’re trying to automate web tasks like scraping when the site doesn’t want to be scraped.