From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: trentbuck@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT]
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:13:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1tzxpdkk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1W6iAP-0001u6-En@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:55:33 -0500")
> If you have the same IP address each time, they will know anyway that
> it is you.
As soon as we switch to IPv6, that's true. But for now, I often share
(at the same time) a single IPv4 address with various people.
> However, if you change the user agent every time the IP address changes,
> that will do more good. But you need to vary among user agent strings
> which are themselves fairly common.
The idea is to completely give up on the idea of "blending into the
mass", since header-finger-printing lets them distinguish individuals
among the mass anyway. So instead your user-agent string will be unique
(instead of common), but you'll never reuse the same one.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-24 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 13:10 Changing user agent on eww Vibhav Pant
2014-01-18 14:16 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-18 17:02 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-23 23:52 ` Changing user agent on eww [OT] Trent W. Buck
2014-01-24 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-24 4:27 ` chad
2014-01-24 14:55 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-24 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-01-25 13:27 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-25 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 13:47 ` Simon Leinen
2014-01-26 14:35 ` Yuri Khan
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