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ChangeUA.md

Change user-agent with privoxy

/etc/privoxy/user.action

{+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0} \
 +add-header{User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0} \
}
/

Pip

This section is obsoleted with the introduction of +add_header action above.

Privoxy doesn't work with Python 3.10 pip because the latter doesn't set UA. Temporay hack:

  • Create venv
  • Edit <venv>/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/adapters.py, change function proxy_header in class HTTPAdapter to add a 'User-Agent' header to the return dict.
  • Use pip from the venv.
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