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Re: IceCat's user-agent reports Windows NT 6.1, Re: IceCat's user-agent
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Nils Gillmann |
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Re: IceCat's user-agent reports Windows NT 6.1, Re: IceCat's user-agent reports Windows NT 6.1 |
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Sun, 13 May 2018 19:31:26 +0000 |
Chris Marusich transcribed 1.8K bytes:
> Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Reducing fingerprinting is hardly advertisment.
>
> I agree with Nils: the IceCat default user agent string is accomplishing
> its intended purpose, which is to protect users' privacy by default by
> obscuring your fingerprint. You can change it if you want to.
>
> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Sounds like a misfeature to me: lots of website use it to display the
> > right content depending on the OS the user is running (tutorials,
> > downloads, etc.). Disclosing the OS family the user is running is
> > hardly a threat to privacy in my opinion.
>
> On this topic, you might find the following humorous article to be
> interesting:
>
> https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
>
> The meaning of the user agent string is pretty muddy in today's world!
>
> --
> Chris
Offtopic, but gmail seems to have broken Mailinglist / Thread interaction now.
You are sending every reply with a double subject. Not that it's distracting,
but it would be great if it could be avoided.