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Android Fediverse client that does not send user agent to servers (programming.dev)
submitted 4 hours ago by hardful9856@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/50677034

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for an Android Fediverse client that does not send user-agent information (device or client details) to servers. Ideally, it should support both Mastodon and Lemmy, or other Fediverse platforms as well.

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[–] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum 2 points 1 hour ago

Could you explain the use case? I don't quite understand the background. Now that AIs are flooding the instances, some admins are blocking these kinds of requests.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

How about a Privacy Web-Browser? For example IronFox is a privacy-oriented Firefox fork. By default it does send an user agent string. But you can make it install addons, for example an addon to change the user agent string to something generic (and fake).

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?