Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] User-agent string on Fedora 21

[Antonio Trande]

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On 01/31/2015 06:52 PM, Rubén Rodríguez wrote:
> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
> 

This is a point of view that i hadn't considered.
I will fix.

@List

Who needs to open a bug report about IceCat packaging on Fedora,
please go to https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/icecat/bugs and
use Open A New Bug (Fedora) (it's necessary a login in RedHat Bugzilla).
Or mail to this list.

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