From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich 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 10:56:57 -0700 Message-ID: <87vabrxwuu.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87vabrluum.fsf@gmail.com> <87bmdjzu5z.fsf@lassieur.org> <87vabrluum.fsf@gmail.com> <87bmdjzu5z.fsf@lassieur.org> <87y3gnreb2.fsf@gmail.com> <87y3gnreb2.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHvF4-0000zA-Dp for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2018 13:57:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHvF3-0007ta-KP for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2018 13:57:06 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22a]:34491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHvF3-0007tW-Dn for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2018 13:57:05 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id a14-v6so4942351pfi.1 for ; Sun, 13 May 2018 10:57:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y3gnreb2.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Sun, 13 May 2018 13:21:53 +0200, Sun, 13 May 2018 12:19:28 +0000") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" , =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nils Gillmann 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 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! =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEy/WXVcvn5+/vGD+x3UCaFdgiRp0FAlr4fGkACgkQ3UCaFdgi Rp2B7g//QlUSx8UdjsLDP5Z0nOrZR0iZH1cNxcg2yCIr39MMSrUrrDkBtY+54Xnp nxuNBbkxKrGLpbFa60Bfe+ierimR3bekBEY3cvp3gPTDhBRBDU1WieCqYXXfQwCz c9Fp7/5HbOjCFnbYZq1VRaG3Bblt5k3DLUFFoHWudtt09fflZ/Gh96H6KjrOMeVQ 4PSa8T97u5dtbvoWzOFV0BNoKl/jc8fjPG0QH3sAaF6Y44PHV1WMfPQcHBUQwt7+ m88g73aNwCvpDRA8tIHrbOutAxQ1Qu+JJFEsVBp4tXdYa+mzUCjn6eR++k1FaU0N flTiTfamD4LePHz83qVFeh4h6OU/EoD9v69EaqrtIMOAASKg6Pk7gQmzH77BRTEW puKmahxkLn8mWlMG2Pl4BGJyna4VI6aEf1YFNxaFitv1Cfo6HUj3ll7z2pxJ/FHJ lpk1eNc+ZS8MCe640bk3qrXTHoY4klDd0Ts9o064w7EbEpvh9l8MGBkE6bBSinOZ YeRrTl1hUxyGjo6KfDhKFhVISIBLE59yOCIbWThtACHPXuk6REBuX2U+tzZfIQPg /o5iOEyTjS43O1MIZpAtbcW/oVEF4xyPtm55Amkl28JqSyinUWszzvPYZgEaJHV3 mI2LL0LMtMxsCBjrIIQQnjyjx/D+WYwy9Hry2udyvRxbJqIXRkc= =sVoW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--