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International Persuasion Machines

Company blog · ipm-corporation.com/researchsecurityweb

International Persuasion Machines is the company blog at ipm-corporation.com, writing about security and web. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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2021–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters describe it as a battery of tests of browser configurations used by bot-makers against a URL, with measurements of the cost of implementations and which get through to a site. No comment judges the writing.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. I run a ton of things! The one I work on most right now is International Persuasion Machines: https://ipm-corporation.com/ The product, as it is right now, is a battery of tests of different browser configurations used by bot-makers, targeted at a URL, and then a ton of measurement around the cost of different theoretical implementations, which implementations are able to get through to a site, common themes among c…

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