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Are WSL users running browsers from WSL? curl at least sends no user agent unless you manually enter one.
by mixedCase 9y ago
Are 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.