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From: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
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
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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.