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Comment by qurren | Hacker News Reader

just inject this with your favorite JS injection plugin

    let oldTanh = Math.tanh;
    Math.tanh = x => oldTanh(x) + Math.random()/10000000;

it's elegant, but i prefer:

    Math.tanh = Math.random;

since tanh is probably being used as a sigmoid, it's probably better to replace with just randomly changing the sign.

The article addresses this: search for "No noise".

Multiple anti-bot vendors will detect that replacement and use it as part of their fingerprinting process.

If this becomes common, it's trivially detectable with good ol' toString().

It's trivial to replace toString() as well

Maybe the right solution is an LLM that reads the fingerprinting code and adapts the counter-measure accordingly in real time.

Great, now you'll be outed as "hides fingerprint", which is probably more identifying than if you returned a normal value.