From: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>,
"Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Subject: Re: IceCat's user-agent reports Windows NT 6.1, Re: IceCat's user-agent reports Windows NT 6.1
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 19:31:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180513193126.pq3ohv5seh7kym2j@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vabrxwuu.fsf@gmail.com>
Chris Marusich transcribed 1.8K bytes:
> Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> writes:
>
> > Reducing fingerprinting is hardly advertisment.
>
> I agree with Nils: the IceCat default user agent string is accomplishing
> its intended purpose, which is to protect users' privacy by default by
> obscuring your fingerprint. You can change it if you want to.
>
> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Sounds like a misfeature to me: lots of website use it to display the
> > right content depending on the OS the user is running (tutorials,
> > downloads, etc.). Disclosing the OS family the user is running is
> > hardly a threat to privacy in my opinion.
>
> On this topic, you might find the following humorous article to be
> interesting:
>
> https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
>
> The meaning of the user agent string is pretty muddy in today's world!
>
> --
> Chris
Offtopic, but gmail seems to have broken Mailinglist / Thread interaction now.
You are sending every reply with a double subject. Not that it's distracting,
but it would be great if it could be avoided.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-13 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-13 10:21 IceCat's user-agent reports Windows NT 6.1 Peter Neidhardt
2018-05-13 11:12 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-05-13 11:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-13 12:19 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-13 17:56 ` IceCat's user-agent reports Windows NT 6.1, " Chris Marusich
2018-05-13 19:31 ` Nils Gillmann [this message]
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