Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting

[Vladimir Sedach]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>>    "What might be more useful is to set variable w3m-add-user-agent to t,
>>     and then set w3m-user-agent to some generic and popular user-agent
>>     string."
>
> What I'd do is randomly select from a choice of, say, 100
> popular browser strings.

A while back I tried setting w3m-user-agent to a recent Firefox
user-agent string. Some websites (YouTube is one example I recall)
started returning different pages that assumed JavaScript and AJAX
and were no longer usable in emacs-w3m.

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