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Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting
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tomas |
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Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting |
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Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:56:07 +0200 |
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 11:50:19PM +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> tomas wrote:
>
> > What I'd do is randomly select from a choice of, say,
> > 100 popular browser strings.
>
> Well, not _everyone_ who objects to this is an Emacs-w3m
> user. Actually I'm sure the vast majority who disables
> this feature does not use Emacs-w3m. So they can't tell
> we use Emacs-w3m just because there is no UA!
I was proposing that with some tongue-in-cheek ;-P
But yes, this stupid data collection craze does get on my nerves,
sometimes.
> Besides, as long as there is data, incorrect as it might
> be, this still encourages them to develop algorithms
> that will act upon that data, and this might hurt
> everyone else who still submits correct data.
If the data is uniformly distributed, it'll hurt everyone uniformly
(again, somewhat tongue-in-cheek ;-P
> So I say we should not submit any data for two reasons,
> one, other people are also not submitting theirs, and
> two, other people are submitting theirs :)
A friend of mine once proposed to return the contents of
/dev/urandom if the server requests a cookie. All of it.
But that was still a time when half of the Web servers there
didn't request a cookie.
Cheers
-- t
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- Re: Browser Fingerprinting, (continued)
- Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/16
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Boruch Baum, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Tomas Nordin, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Boruch Baum, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, tomas, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Vladimir Sedach, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Vladimir Sedach, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting,
tomas <=
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Tomas Nordin, 2020/04/18
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Boruch Baum, 2020/04/18
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Emanuel Berg, 2020/04/18
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, tomas, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Vladimir Sedach, 2020/04/17
- Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting, Boruch Baum, 2020/04/18