From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT] Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:13:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <16166511.vzeQlYYo3r@descartes> <87ob32mf2a.fsf_-_@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390580021 32030 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2014 16:13:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:13:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: trentbuck@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 24 17:13:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jO6-0007IV-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:13:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47474 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jO5-0004vW-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:13:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jNw-0004uZ-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jNo-0001tv-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:54093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6jNo-0001tr-Jg; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:13:28 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFsoXO9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFsoXO9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="45997302" Original-Received: from 108-161-115-189.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.161.115.189]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 24 Jan 2014 11:13:28 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9000C603CD; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:13:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:55:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169016 Archived-At: > 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