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One reason I like FF on Android better than Chrome: The Chrome user agent has your device model, even in incognito mode. If you have a relatively rare Android
by asveikau 7y ago
One reason I like FF on Android better than Chrome:
The Chrome user agent has your device model, even in incognito mode.
If you have a relatively rare Android device in your market, I think you can be tracked fairly uniquely on that alone. I was creeped out when I discovered this.
- cpeterso 7y ago> The Chrome user agent has your device model, even in incognito mode. For example, on my phone, Firefox's current User-Agent header is: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 8.1.0; Tablet; rv:67.0) Gecko/67.0 Firefox/67.0 while Chrome's is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Moto G (5) Plus) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/740.3729.136 Mobile Safari/537.36
- asveikau 7y agoI would say it gets worse than this though. "Moto G (5) Plus" is probably pretty common. As are Pixels and many Samsung offerings. But since android has such a broad spectrum of devices, if you happened to get one that's more rare, you are sort of advertising that all over the web, and you will be one of a small number of people doing it.