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Fedora did this for a while to inject the word "Fedora" into the User Agent. They eventually stopped because users were similarly spooked.

• fbhabbed 4y ago
  They still do it
  • babypuncher 4y ago
    I'm on a fresh install of Fedora 36 (KDE Spin) and my Firefox UA is currently showing as "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0".
    • lohfu 4y ago
      cool, so don't switch to chromium. then the internet will know you run fedora.
      • fbhabbed 4y ago
        I mean all he has to do is to uninstall fedora-chromium-config
• MichaelCollins 4y ago
  Putting even more identifying information into User Agent strings seems completely insane, who's interests is that meant to serve? The number of people in any town with Fedora in their UA must be minuscule, that blows a huge number of 'privacy bits', and for what?
  • bravetraveler 4y ago
    I think it's for installation tracking to some degree -- they do this by the browser user agents but _also_ machine-ids sent with DNF (the package manager) I love the project, I really dislike this 'gather things that might be useful to someone' behavior and having to MITM my system to see what it's actually doing