Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
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Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
#2odd name; shouldn't it be named after something that stealthily infiltrates fortresses?
Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
#3odd name; shouldn't it be named after something that stealthily infiltrates fortresses?
Trojan Horse probably wouldn't make a very good name for a browser.
Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
#4odd name; shouldn't it be named after something that stealthily infiltrates fortresses?
fellow contributor on this.
we thought of it the other way round: your automation is the fortress, and every bot-detector trying to fingerprint it is the siege.
also most good burglar names were taken on PyPI
Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
#5Is it ethical to scrape when a site has explicitly blocked bots? I know a fair number of people who run small sites who are already considering closing them down because the bots are relentlessly hammering their sites and driving up hosting costs.
Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
#6odd name; shouldn't it be named after something that stealthily infiltrates fortresses?
fellow contributor on this. we thought of it the other way round: your automation is the fortress, and every bot-detector trying to fingerprint it is the siege. also most good burglar names were taken on PyPI
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Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
#7odd name; shouldn't it be named after something that stealthily infiltrates fortresses?
fellow contributor on this. we thought of it the other way round: your automation is the fortress, and every bot-detector trying to fingerprint it is the siege. also most good burglar names were taken on PyPI
in my defence, i did lobby hard for "GuyWhoWavesYouThroughTheGate"
Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
fellow contributor on this. we thought of it the other way round: your automation is the fortress, and every bot-detector trying to fingerprint it is the siege. also most good burglar names were taken on PyPI
in my defence, i did lobby hard for "GuyWhoWavesYouThroughTheGate"
"Doorman"
Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
#9Is it ethical to scrape when a site has explicitly blocked bots? I know a fair number of people who run small sites who are already considering closing them down because the bots are relentlessly hammering their sites and driving up hosting costs.
It's most definitely unethical.