On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 11:22:58PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi Arun, > > Arun Isaac writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Many sites---jitsi among many others---don't work properly when they see > > an Icecat user agent. Instead, when the user agent is set to a Firefox > > user agent, these sites work as expected. Users can do this manually by > > installing user agent switching extensions such as uaswitcher, but it > > would be much better if our Icecat package, by default, came with a > > Firefox user agent, and everything worked normally without any user > > intervention. > > > > This bug report arose out of a discussion on help-guix. See > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-11/msg00082.html > > > > I would normally volunteer a patch, but building Icecat takes too long > > (> 24 hours) on my slow computer. It would be nice if someone with a > > faster build machine handled this. > > I thought the default user agent was already that of Firefox for Windows > (!), purportedly to make it less unique (thus making fingerprinting of > browsers/users more difficult). > > Isn't it the case? I changed mine long ago so I don't remember (to > please some broken site). > > Thank you, > > Maxim I remember a discussion forever ago about making the User-Agent Guix specific but we ended up not going that way in order to try to provide more anonymity. I don't believe I've changed my user agent ever, and here's what I'm told mine is: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 If you want to experiment with it you can send a patch (and tag me) and I'll build icecat locally and check it out and let you know how it goes. Icecat builds fairly quickly for me. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted