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Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] User-agent string on Fedora 21
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Rubén Rodríguez |
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Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] User-agent string on Fedora 21 |
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Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:52:04 +0100 |
El sáb, 31-01-2015 a las 18:42 +0100, Antonio Trande escribió:
> > The Fedora package of IceCat contains altered user-agent string
> > which has "Fedora 21" in it.
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> > Such information can be easily used to identify a user (since very
> > tiny portion of the Internet population using Fedora 21).
> >
> > Please, consider changing it.
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> I presume that who uses IceCat from Fedora then uses a Fedora system.
> However I think it's better use the Firefox User Agent Strings
> (http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Firefox/), just changing Firefox
> with IceCat.
IceCat uses a spoofed UA string to improve on privacy. Please do not
modify it on redistribution, as it defeats the purpose of the feature.
The string should be:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0"
It also matches the TorBrowser UA string.
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