On Thu, March 24, 2016 11:56, g wrote:
On 03/24/16 09:29, Richard wrote:
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016 14:10:41 +0000 From: Always Learning centos@u64.u22.net On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 22:29 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:
What purpose does it serve? I don't object to it being there but I also don't see a benefit to it being there.
Ubuntu btw is not exactly a distribution I want RHEL/EPEL/CentOS developers to emulate...
Spread the successful Centos 'brand name' :-)
The user-agent string is one of the items used in uniquely identifying/fingerprinting a user/machine, so the more generic it is the better. Including the details of the OS add to the "bits of identifying information" available to trackers.
See the EFF testing site for more details:
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aware of panopticlick.
if you have a file in profile directory, add this to it. if not, create file and paste this in it.
//set user agent to blank user_pref("general.useragent.override", " ");
what makes you get a unique rating is that you report no agent. only info any site will know about you is your ip address.
if you want to hide that, use a proxy server. ((GBWG))
On the other hand, setting it to 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0' would make one look like the latest TOR browser. Which, if CentOS set Firefox to that by default, would make identifying TOR users a great deal harder.
Just a thought.