From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD.
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 16:27:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y42zu8xi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twdnor4a.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:51:01 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> This would be a bad idea. The user-agent string above was chosen so
> that users fall into a large “anonymity set”. If we applied this patch,
> then web servers could trivially identify us.
>
> On this topic, see:
>
> https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Thanks for the explanation! With either user agent string, I get the
same results btw: unique fingerprint. Of course, using GuixSD may be a
bit less common than Windows NT today, but times are changing ;-)
Greetings,
Jan
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-10 9:18 [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-10 10:01 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-10 11:47 ` ng0
2016-09-10 12:39 ` Brendan Tildesley
2016-09-10 12:52 ` ng0
2016-09-10 12:47 ` Alex Vong
2016-09-10 12:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-10 14:27 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
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