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I really wish the browser vendors would come together to establish a plan to clean up User-Agent. It's one of the worst offenders in header legacy[1] and finger
by daxterspeed 8y ago
I really wish the browser vendors would come together to establish a plan to clean up User-Agent. It's one of the worst offenders in header legacy[1] and fingerprinting. Exposing what browser I am using and it's major version is fine but I don't think every website I visit deserves to know what OS I am using, nor the details of my CPU.
[1] https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/ https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-use... (2010, though little has changed since then).
- gcp 8y agoBrowser vendors can't clean up User-Agent because the websites sniff it and break if it's "wrong" (for any random value of wrong). I'm sure there's a Bugzilla bug about the "X11; Linux x86_64" in the headers, and I'd be terrified to open it.