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Missing privacy options such as those provided in "Random Agent Spoofer"


From: YruNlsr6371bDg
Subject: Missing privacy options such as those provided in "Random Agent Spoofer" Firefox/Seamonkey/Waterfox addon.
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:58:27 +0000

The "Random Agent Spoofer" Firefox/Seamonkey/Waterfox addon provides many
privacy features that should be incorporated into GNU wget.


Mainly, GNU wget should have an option to use a different (preferably random)
user-agent for each new request with an option like:

--random-user-agent-list-file=FILENAME

where FILENAME specifies a list of user-agent strings (one per line) to be used.

Alternatively, the list of random user agents can also be specified in the
command line - delimited by a " character, for example:

--random-user-agents='AGENT0"AGENT1"AGENT2...'

Not sure if the " character is allowed in an user-agent string, and if so, the
delimiter would need to be different.


The other privacy features of the "Random Agent Spoofer" addon that could
potentially be incorporated into GNU wget can be found here:

https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer


All of these privacy options would obviously mainly be useful in '--recursive',
'--random-wait' downloads, and used in conjunction with tor proxy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201205220730/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/torsocks
https://web.archive.org/web/20201021072724/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/Misc
https://github.com/Whonix/uwt


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