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I don't like this, it's telling me to go upgrade my browser as punishment for having the wrong user agent. When I'm trying to have privacy. My agent: Mozilla/
by Joakal 15y ago
I don't like this, it's telling me to go upgrade my browser as punishment for having the wrong user agent. When I'm trying to have privacy.
My agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
I'm using 6.0.2 browser, however.
It's a pretty common user agent: https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php Eff does not provide the most common user agents list so I have no idea what's latest user agent to use. Many web statistic collectors also don't mention user agents.
- coffeemug 15y agoThis product was designed to do a really good job helping people that have to get things done. Like any other software project, they must have had thousands of issues and limited resources to fix them, so they had to triage. With all due respect, the kinds of users that spoof their user agent to protect their privacy is probably fairly low on their priority list.
- Joakal 15y ago"Thousands of issues and limited resources to fix them"? They seem to have the resources to make it by design to block such user agents rather than advising users to upgrade.
- Vitaly 15y agoyeah. and people will ignore the warning, continue to use the app and then complain that it doesn't work wasting everybody's time.
- icebraining 15y agoFirefox 5.0 is the most common nowadays; XP is also still the leader; So, the intersection between the two is probably high. According to UserAgentString, there's only one string (well, two variations): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 Mozilla/5.0 (U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 By the way, have you considered using this[1]? Seems the best option to prevent tracking. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/randomuseragent/