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Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD.
From: |
Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD. |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 16:27:21 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> This would be a bad idea. The user-agent string above was chosen so
> that users fall into a large “anonymity set”. If we applied this patch,
> then web servers could trivially identify us.
>
> On this topic, see:
>
> https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Thanks for the explanation! With either user agent string, I get the
same results btw: unique fingerprint. Of course, using GuixSD may be a
bit less common than Windows NT today, but times are changing ;-)
Greetings,
Jan
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- [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD., Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2016/09/10
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- Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD., Brendan Tildesley, 2016/09/10
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD., Alex Vong, 2016/09/10
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD., Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/10
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD.,
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