Last time i checked you need to swipe to confirm every time your automation attempts to send a message? kinda kills the automation part. I was shocked that there was almost nothing to be automated with messages on IOS as third party apps can't even read or send them. The Tasker app for android is great for this kind of thing.
If the bubble bursts a lot of BS jobs will go away including a lot of jobs in the 'innovative' sector, which only exist due to Americans having more cash than they know what to do with. Think the 23rd food delivery app, uber but for x, crypto, etc. Cowboys will be devastated but the highly skilled and credentialed will always have options.
Cyber crims are financially motivated and today there are far easier/lower risk options for hackers. Just look at the people who lose 6 figure crypto balances to automated twitter scams or fake crypto celeb live-stream stream replays.
How many of those people are getting hacked by someone playing games with their local network? It seems to be almost universally garden-variety phishing attacks and software bugs, none of which care what network you're on.
If I was going to worry about a network in this scenario, it'd be the cellular network used for SMS if you have the misfortune of having any accounts where that's the only MFA option.
I'm honestly more comfortable with Google than companies that pretend to be into the whole privacy thing. At least Google doesn't try deceive you. I really hope nobody here uses TOR (developed by Mozilla?) for anything important, It seems like large parts of the network is owned by the govt.
Because we only had 2-3 months of lockdown before, after that it's been business as usual. But to contain omicron you need literally everyone to stay at home, and also more will need to as I think it will be impossible to not be a second degree contact a month from now.
Would be cool if there was something like this for Python. Last time i tried to scrape something interesting i found that one of Cloudflare's enterprise options was easily blocking all of the main http libraries due to the identifiable TLS handshake.
The site wasn't using it to block me, just to prompt a captcha, without doing so to 'real' browsers.
The HTTP requests were exact copies of browser requests (in terms of how the server would've seen them), so it was something below HTTP. I ended up finding a lot of info about Cloudflare and the TLS stuff on StackOverflow, with others having similar issues. Someone even made an API to do the TLS stuff as a service, but was too expensive for me. https://pixeljets.com/blog/scrape-ninja-bypassing-cloudflare...
Thanks for the response, never came across the particular behaviour.
fwiw I think when it comes to the 'copy as curl', the HTTP header ordering may be different and it's worth loading up a page twice as some of the cookies are replaced.
I've used puppeteer as the article talks about. Manages the cookies better. Managed to do continuous requests without getting further CF blocks as opposed to a couple of hundred with cURL (due to cookies different from what CF expect over a time)
IIRC CF does have a sliding scale of how protected you want a site to be, so perhaps the TLS stuff belongs further up the scale.
I think most of the scraping libraries have stagnated since it's hard to scrape without a headless browser these days...too many sites with client-side rendered content.
It can be even worse than suspending you, as early as 2018 i noticed they were shadow banning you based on VPN (PIA also). Meaning you could still post but not be seen, or have the ability to notify people you replied to. I've never since bothered to have an account there. Reddit's CEO, like Jack Dorsey, denies 'shadow banning', even though you can test it by getting -100 karma and watching your comments reach nobody. The negative karma shadow ban is why Reddit is the biggest hivemind on the internet, FYI.
The -100 shadowban is mostly subreddit dependent, and done via automoderator by the mods of most larger subreddits.
An actual admin shadowban does happen and they are employed, but I don't think they're particularly hidden. As a mod I see "User is shadowbanned" when they message us if they've been shadowbanned from Reddit by the admins.
Yes, I would like to see the source that makes the claim that Reddit doesn't shadowban, because any mod of any subreddit can trivially refute that. I see shadowbanned users all the time, and Reddit calls them shadowbanned in the UI; it's not a secret. Nearly all of them are fairly new accounts, presumably having run afoul of some sort of automatic system. It definitely has plenty of false positives, but at the same time I also see essentially zero spam, so it's clear that they're trying to optimize for false positives rather than false negatives. It would be great if mods could at least approve a shadowbanned user for posting in their own subreddit, right now the only recourse is for them to make a new account and roll the dice again.
I was globally shadowbanned for using Mullvad VPN. Happened with multiple accounts. I usually posted in a subreddit where a mod would manually approve my comments, allowing me to get some hundred comment karma, but that still didnt fix it and the mod was getting tired of approving so i eventually gave up using reddit altogether
