I guess my issue is that I want an extension to automatically plug in all the different user agents, geolocations, etc. to find the cheapest one. Having an extension to enable me to change these things myself is nice but not what I’d find most useful, you know?
I dont see that as an possibility given all the complications. You can make a custom extension work for a particular site to fetch the price and go through a shit ton of possible variations of browser, os, screen resolution and all those sht that goes in the fingerprint, reloading the page everytime but that would be awfully ineffective and slow. And making a generalized extension that can do the same for every website is pretty much impossible.
If it’s for a specific website, it shouldn’t be that hard to whip up a python script using selenium. It might not work for everything but you can change location and user agent from what I remember
Someone posted about a website called canvas blocker to your original comment that could find the fingerprint, I haven’t got a chance to test it myself but you can try it out and let me know if it was any good.
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I guess my issue is that I want an extension to automatically plug in all the different user agents, geolocations, etc. to find the cheapest one. Having an extension to enable me to change these things myself is nice but not what I’d find most useful, you know?
I dont see that as an possibility given all the complications. You can make a custom extension work for a particular site to fetch the price and go through a shit ton of possible variations of browser, os, screen resolution and all those sht that goes in the fingerprint, reloading the page everytime but that would be awfully ineffective and slow. And making a generalized extension that can do the same for every website is pretty much impossible.
Ah, that’s what I was afraid of. Oh well. I see what you mean.
If it’s for a specific website, it shouldn’t be that hard to whip up a python script using selenium. It might not work for everything but you can change location and user agent from what I remember
Someone posted about a website called canvas blocker to your original comment that could find the fingerprint, I haven’t got a chance to test it myself but you can try it out and let me know if it was any good.