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Would it be possible to implement some js here to detect user agents, and kick off anyone using a non-free operating system?
I'm unfamiliar with both 8ch board operation and javascript so my apologies if this is a stupid question, but it seems to be possible according to https://8ch.net/tech/res/802384.html
▶ No.899887>>899898
why even bother. I started using Linux because I used to lurk on /g. /tech is a gateway drug for Unix/linux
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>User Agent
>JS
It would help if you actually knew how this shit worked. User agent is sent to the server every time any HTTP request is made. No JS needed.
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>>899889
But no board can modify server software.
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>>899891
no board can modify javascript either
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>>899887
low-quality post prevention
>>899888
no other option
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>>899884 (OP)
user agent is like a header thing or something, I forget but it would be annoying if I got kicked off from ripping images from a thread because i didn't change my curl/wget's user agent into ebin ganoo+loonix freedumbs
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▶ No.899944
He's suggesting blocking posting client side with javascript.
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>change user agent to free operating system
▶ No.899977>>899979 >>899989 >>899991
Can someone who has maintained a board here definitively say it is/isn't possible?
If this can be implemented, should it? Let's say only as a posting block.
>>899899
That would be an issue with a whitelist but not a blacklist.
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>>899977
>Can someone who has maintained a board here definitively say it is/isn't possible?
What the fuck do you think would happen if Jim let every random fuck run any javascript they wanted on a board?
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>>899977
>If this can be implemented, should it?
>let's ban anyone who uses an user-agent spoofer! that'll improve privacy
▶ No.899990>>899995 >>900112 >>900134 >>900501
Sure, by inspecting navigator.userAgent, and convincing everyone to paste it into the User JS box. There's no way to force javascript on your users.
It would have been possible with CSS by covering or displacing everything with an external image that only loads for people who request it with a proprietary user agent, but stylesheets only allow external hosts on a whitelist basis and it would have the side effect of logging everyone's visits which is not great.
But we're not interested in doing it in the first place. If you want to limit your own freedom™ that's your call. I think the BO dual boots.
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>>899977
It's possible if you're the 8chan administrator. You can't do it client-side.
>should it?
Obviously not. Retards like yourself don't run sites for a reason.
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>>899990
>the BO dual boots
Into the trash it goes. Tech is dead.
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>>899995
He dual boots Trisquel and ReactOS.
Nothing to worry about.
▶ No.900015>>900112 >>904631
>he doesn't spoof his User Agent, fonts and platform to name it look as if he's running Windows 10
Privacy my ass. You're easier to track than my mom you turbo faggots.
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>>899979
I wouldn't know, my browser doesn't even support js :^)
>>899989
Solid point I somehow forgot user agent spoofing is a thing
>>899990
That does sound like an awful way to do it and I'd oppose it
>>900015
>he doesn't send his lolicon archives directly to the fbi with his personal e-mail address
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>>899999
Check em! Nice get.
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>>899990
>It would have been possible with CSS by covering or displacing everything with an external image that only loads for people who request it with a proprietary user agent
userContent.css says "hello".
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>>900134
You can also set your own stylesheet in the options, or view the board through mod.php (works even if you're not a mod on the board you're viewing), or hand-write requests and read them, or use an adblocker, or use a browser that doesn't support CSS.
It's infeasible to make something secure, but it's just for elitist purposes anyway.
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>>900134
Would still filter the retarded tech support questions.
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>>899891
I sincerely believe tech should move to its own server and provide a .onion only site. Vichan is no good for the quality of the content provided in tech. This should keep out most of the jews, pajeets and niggers.
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>literally muh safe space
lmao how about you fags actually try making any of your other boards even remotely appealing instead of typical entryism
▶ No.900341>>904631
OP is a faggot, here's a better idea:
Make a js script that blanks the whole site, to kick off retards who use js by default.
▶ No.900343
Javascript was a mistake.
▶ No.900496
The browser's useragent doesn't have to tell you anything about the OS. And also, it's trivial to change it.
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>>899990
Shit ring, even the option to use CSS to block proprietary user agents won't work on 8chan. We can't add CSS from our own hosts. We're locked into what Codemonkey decides is appropriate because of content security policy. If CSP wasn't on 8chan I could easily setup what you're describing with nginx and a css file.
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>>899884 (OP)
Congratulations on being this obviously new.
>>802384
▶ No.900533
(((J)))Scriptcucks get the gas
▶ No.900536
I hope we've went beyond "Please use the newest firefox or this website won't display properly".
▶ No.904621
Then is Typescript Kikescript?
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>>900341
This is a good idea. (Although a cleaner implementation would be simply purging the document tree.)
>>900015
This gave me an even better idea: block everyone who doesn't spoof his UA to be that of Tor Browser (which may be, I think, the most widely adopted spoofed UA out there). This would filter out everyone who doesn't care about privacy.
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>>899884 (OP)
Ask Hotwheels to implement it server-side, like they did it on commie 2ch:
https://2ch.hk/s/
>>904631
Spoofing your UA as Tor browser when you're not using tor exit or onions only puts you in danger of being more identifiable, Windows 7 is not the most used operating system anymore.
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>>904905
>Windows 7 is not the most used operating system anymore
Oh it's not? Then what is?
inb4 10
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>>904905
>hotwheels
Anon, I...
▶ No.906093
since this is a user agent thread now, anyone willing to share their lists of popular user agents? i've only got that huge xml file from user-agent.info but even then I don't think it has nearly all possible agents.
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>>899884 (OP)
Go drink some bleach and shoot yourself in the mouth, you dumb fucking shit smear.
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>>911023
Why shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane?
▶ No.911296
js sucks balls. it's miserable to work with and produces ugly, unmaintainable, impossible to debug code.