Re: [emacs-w3m:13607] Re: Browser Fingerprinting

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 11:50:19PM +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> tomas wrote:
> 
> > What I'd do is randomly select from a choice of, say,
> > 100 popular browser strings.
> 
> Well, not _everyone_ who objects to this is an Emacs-w3m
> user. Actually I'm sure the vast majority who disables
> this feature does not use Emacs-w3m. So they can't tell
> we use Emacs-w3m just because there is no UA!

I was proposing that with some tongue-in-cheek ;-P

But yes, this stupid data collection craze does get on my nerves,
sometimes.

> Besides, as long as there is data, incorrect as it might
> be, this still encourages them to develop algorithms
> that will act upon that data, and this might hurt
> everyone else who still submits correct data.

If the data is uniformly distributed, it'll hurt everyone uniformly
(again, somewhat tongue-in-cheek ;-P

> So I say we should not submit any data for two reasons,
> one, other people are also not submitting theirs, and
> two, other people are submitting theirs :)

A friend of mine once proposed to return the contents of
/dev/urandom if the server requests a cookie. All of it.

But that was still a time when half of the Web servers there
didn't request a cookie.

Cheers
-- t

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