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How about we get together and decide on a common string that all of us can use? We can set our browsers to use that, and our friends' as well. Theoretically, th
by rocky1138 11y ago
How about we get together and decide on a common string that all of us can use? We can set our browsers to use that, and our friends' as well. Theoretically, the more people that use the same string, the harder we'll be to track, correct?
- legind 11y agoThat's right, though it's a bit more difficult. Lots of sites use the User-Agent header to determine how to render a page, and may not render it at all if it's an unexpected value. Pages that allow you to install addons to your browsers also use this string to figure out if you're really running the target browser.
- schoen 11y agoTor Browser does that: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
- redwards510 11y agoYes! How would you say "I'm a generic modern browser that can interpret HTML5. Do not send me flash."
- r-w 11y agoJonDo has done exactly that: “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0”. It hasn’t changed things much, thanks to its relative obscurity and the network effect involved. You should try it out!