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Thanks for the detailed explanation and suggestion!

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}',

@tal@lemmy.today That post is somehow deleted by the mod so I could only reply here

I’m not personally familiar with Synology’s products, but if what’s going on is that you’re using some built-in feature of a Synology NAS to copy files from a USB drive to the NAS and seeing an error, I’d probably try copying that particular file to somewhere else on a PC, cutting the NAS out of the loop, to make sure that you don’t have, say, a corrupt filesystem where attempts to read the file contents are failing.

USB Copy is a built in application in synology. I set it up to do mirroring backup of several folders each day. Copy files to a PC works for me but not a long term solution

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!

Thanks this is very helpful

Thanks this is very helpful