[CentOS] Centos in the Browser string ?

Thu Mar 24 20:41:44 UTC 2016
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 24.03.2016 um 16:56 schrieb g <geleem at bellsouth.net>:
> On 03/24/16 09:29, Richard wrote:
>>> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016 14:10:41 +0000
>>> From: Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net>
>>> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 22:29 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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:
>> 
>>   <https://panopticlick.eff.org/>
>> 
> --
> 
> 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", " ");
> 


this makes you more identifiable ...

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LF