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Agreed, it seems to me Firefox doesn't need to tell every site that I'm using "X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0" right in the request header. That's surely a
by incompatible 9y ago
Agreed, it seems to me Firefox doesn't need to tell every site that I'm using "X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0" right in the request header. That's surely a bit help with fingerprinting.
Perhaps the sites could figure it out anyway with more effort, but at least force them to make the effort.
- hsivonen 9y agoWe tried to get rid of the Ubuntu bit years ago but failed. Ubuntu has an incentive to broadcast that users are using the Ubuntu-shipped Firefox. Basically everyone who ships a browser wants to shout: “Look at me! I have market share!” Many sites vary native-code downloads by platform, so removing OS/CPU would cause unhappiness there.