

Thanks for the suggestion but though it might not be difficult, it is still inconvinient


Thanks for the suggestion but though it might not be difficult, it is still inconvinient


Yes that would be an alternative. But I’m looking for a more user friendly client that could achieve the goal.
Not sending a user agent at all is realistically speaking not feasible.
Actually it should be feasible


I’m sorry if my question is inappropriate


Yes that would be an alternative. But I’m looking for a more user friendly client that could achieve the goal.


I just checked, they do send user agent to lemmy server.
For example
final appVersion = getCurrentVersion(removeInternalBuildNumber: true, trimV: true);
return {
'User-Agent': 'Thunder/$appVersion',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Accept': 'application/json',
if (account.jwt != null) 'Authorization': 'Bearer ${account.jwt}',


Yes that would be an alternative. But I’m looking for a more user friendly client that could achieve the goal.


Bots can easily fake their user agents, so using them to detect bots is not enough and mostly just puts regular users’ privacy at risk.


Yes that would be an alternative. But I’m looking for a more user friendly client that could achieve the goal.
To be honest, this is a very specific method, and I don’t know which problem we’re facing. So this might as well be some A-B problem. So what are you trying to achieve?
user agent is not essential for the servers, server does not need to know which client or device I am using. So I don’t want any server to fingerprint users.


Could you explain the use case?
user agent is not essential for the servers, server does not need to know which client or device I am using.
Now that AIs are flooding the instances, some admins are blocking these kinds of requests.
What AI request?


What do you mean by “device or client details”?
It means information like device type and which client I am using (voyager …)


Voyager app is indeed a Fediverse client. Thanks for your suggestion. Sadly TrackerControl does not block user agent sent to fediverse server.


Thanks this is very helpful


Thanks this is very helpful
Thanks for the detailed explanation and suggestion!