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> and it's a question of "when" not "if" major sites start requiring it in the name of "safety" from bots.

I recently found a plugin that can alert to JS doing shady "fingerprint-like" activity. I did not expect it to go off quite as often as it does now.

It would seem that some sites are already asking _very_ probing questions about the browser so it's only a matter of time before they go one step further and demand proof and gate on furnishment of that proof.



Would you mind sharing a link to that plugin?


> Would you mind sharing a link to that plugin?

Sure thing!

https://jshelter.org/ is the homepage.




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