Faker.js
What really happened with Aaron Swartz? (by Marak)
fingerprintjs
Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed. (by fingerprintjs)
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| Faker.js | fingerprintjs | |
|---|---|---|
| 66 | 346 | |
| 1,569 | 20,938 | |
| - | 1.9% | |
| 1.7 | 7.8 | |
| over 2 years ago | 5 days ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Faker.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of Faker.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-31.
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JavaScript News and Updates of January 2022
Early this month, the malicious attack on free-to-use libraries, namely color.js and faker.js, created a real uproar in the development community. These tools are used in thousands of projects and their downloading rate from npm is estimated in millions per week. To everyone’s surprise, it turned out to be an inside job. Marak Squires, the creator of these libraries, intentionally committed malicious code to his projects and published updated codebases on GitHub and npm. It is said that this sabotage was caused by unsuccessful attempts of Mr. Squires to monetize his projects. Fortunately, malicious packages were quickly removed and the attacker’s account was suspended. The story sparked a new wave of discussion in the development community on possible steps to make the development and maintenance of open-source projects more sustainable.
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Unofficial Faker.js fork positions itself as official successor and assumes name and Open Collective sponsors
For anyone else curious about the allusion to Aaron Swartz, it can be found here and reads (as of posting):
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This is not normal.
Sorry little boy--- I needed to update my LinkedIn profile, hire a professional to write my resume and photograph me, and work on an open-source project no one will use (or worse- work on something everyone uses)"
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Is there something wrong with OpenSource model?
So people, I've been reading the news regarding some great packages on GitHub, like the Colors and the Faker. I understand that this isn't related entirely with the linux community, but it is something that we should pay attention.
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Re: the faker.js debacle: A daily reminder that htmx & hyperscript are dependency free
A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer.
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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects
I mean he also maliciously changed all of the links on a faker.js issue to point to conspiracy theories (which I am pretty sure is against Github's TOS): https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/pull/2
- What happened with fakerjs
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The EndGame - Fakerjs
About Four (4) Days Ago, the Author of Fakerjs a popular JavaScript library with more than 2 million weekly Download from NPM Deleted the repository and replaced it with one that only has the modified ReadMe "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?" and no content, and pushed an empty package to npm as the latest version (6.6.6).
- Marak, creator of faker.js who recently deleted the project due to lack of funding and abuse of open source projects/developers pushed some strange Anti American update which has an infinite loop
- Marak adds infinite loop test to popular colors.js
fingerprintjs
Posts with mentions or reviews of fingerprintjs.
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What are some alternatives?
When comparing Faker.js and fingerprintjs you can also consider the following projects:
jest-playwright - Running tests using Jest & Playwright
AmIUnique - Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet
simplecrawler - Flexible event driven crawler for node.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
casual - Fake data generator for javascript
Laravel - The Laravel Framework.
fake-store-api - FakeStoreAPI is a free online REST API that provides you fake e-commerce JSON data
evercookie - Produces persistent, respawning "super" cookies in a browser, abusing over a dozen techniques. Its goal is to identify users after they've removed standard cookies and other privacy data such as Flash cookies (LSOs), HTML5 storage, SilverLight storage, and others.
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
msw - Seamless REST/GraphQL API mocking library for browser and Node.js.
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
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