On Fri, March 25, 2016 7:10 pm, James B. Byrne wrote: > > 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 at 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: >>> >>> <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", " "); >> >> 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. Which tor users prefer not to anyway ;-) > > Just a thought. > > -- > *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** > Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail > Do NOT open attachments or follow links sent by e-Mail > > James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca > Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca > 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 > Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 > Canada L8E 3C3 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++