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I wonder if Windows 10's WSL is counted as Windows or Linux when computing this stat.
by rrdharan 9y ago
I wonder if Windows 10's WSL is counted as Windows or Linux when computing this stat.
- mixedCase 9y agoAre WSL users running browsers from WSL? curl at least sends no user agent unless you manually enter one.
- Meegul 9y agoI somewhat regularly use Firefox from within the WSL. It's a privacy by obscurity thing for me though.
- asdfgadsfgasfdg 9y agoDoesn't that give you an amazingly unique fingerprint? https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://amiunique.org/ https://amiunique.org/
- Meegul 9y agoSeems so. But I meant more privacy on a local machine basis. That is, someone would really need to dig through the filesystem to find browsing information, rather than just looking at the standard locations. I recognize it's a weak privacy measure, but in my situation it gives me a mostly private browser on a shared user account.
- asdfgadsfgasfdg 9y agoOK. This sounds like a perfect use for either private browsing mode or another profile with history etc set to false though.
- Meegul 9y agoPrivate browsing wouldn't save any browsing information, which is something I want. Also, using another profile would reveal that the profile exists in the first place. Using the WSL is much more hidden.
- lucb1e 9y ago$ curl -v example.com |& grep -i agent > User-Agent: curl/7.52.1 It does send a user agent by default.