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Request creation of free software missing from the 🄯ommons 🗽🐧🐃

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This is a place to ask whether free open source software exists for a particular purpose. If it’s non-existent, specify your software requirements here so your dream can be well articulated for everyone to either laugh at or share the dream and give moral support for you to create it yourself. Or you might even to pitch the idea so well that a developer loves the idea enough to run off and build it for you.

No other community exists for this purpose but there are some loosely related ones. If existing software closely delivers what you need but is missing a feature, you might post a wishlist/feature request here or in !bugs@sopuli.xyz.

The FSF has a software directory that can help with finding software.

Loosely related decentralised communities generally for FOSS:

There is also foss@beehaw.org but I don’t recommend it because the mod is trigger happy with censorship. E.g. if you post about FOSS advocacy it will get removed as it does not relate to any particular FOSS application. There are also many more FOSS forums duplicated in centralised places which are not conducive to the digital rights spirit of free open source software, so they are omitted.

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In light of this news, we need a browser that looks like a search engine crawler.

This would equalise the problem of websites giving preferential treatment to crawlers and lousy treatment to the rest.

My question is: assuming all hearders could mimick a crawler, would that be sufficient? Or do paywalls take IP address into account? And if so, would it work to subscribe to Google Cloud just to get an IP address in Google’s ranges and use that for crawling?

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