> 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/>