> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016 14:10:41 +0000 > From: Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> > > On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 22:29 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: > >> What purpose does it serve? I don't object to it being there >> but I also don't see a benefit to it being there. >> >> Ubuntu btw is not exactly a distribution I want RHEL/EPEL/CentOS >> developers to emulate... > > Spread the successful Centos 'brand name' :-)The user-agent string is one of the items used in uniquely identifying/fingerprinting a user/machine, so the more generic it is the better. Including the details of the OS add to the "bits of identifying information" available to trackers. See the EFF testing site for more details: <https://panopticlick.eff.org/>
On 03/24/16 09:29, Richard wrote:>> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016 14:10:41 +0000 >> From: Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> >> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 22:29 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: >> >>> What purpose does it serve? I don't object to it being there >>> but I also don't see a benefit to it being there. >>> >>> Ubuntu btw is not exactly a distribution I want RHEL/EPEL/CentOS >>> developers to emulate... >> >> Spread the successful Centos 'brand name' :-) > > The user-agent string is one of the items used in uniquely > identifying/fingerprinting a user/machine, so the more generic it is > the better. Including the details of the OS add to the "bits of > identifying information" available to trackers. > > See the EFF testing site for more details: > > <https://panopticlick.eff.org/> >-- aware of panopticlick. if you have a file in profile directory, add this to it. if not, create file and paste this in it. //set user agent to blank user_pref("general.useragent.override", " "); what makes you get a unique rating is that you report no agent. only info any site will know about you is your ip address. if you want to hide that, use a proxy server. ((GBWG)) -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .
resend. yuckahoo bounced another post. On 03/24/16 09:29, Richard wrote:>> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016 14:10:41 +0000 >> From: Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> >> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 22:29 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: >> >>> What purpose does it serve? I don't object to it being there >>> but I also don't see a benefit to it being there. >>> >>> Ubuntu btw is not exactly a distribution I want RHEL/EPEL/CentOS >>> developers to emulate... >> >> Spread the successful Centos 'brand name' :-) > > The user-agent string is one of the items used in uniquely > identifying/fingerprinting a user/machine, so the more generic it is > the better. Including the details of the OS add to the "bits of > identifying information" available to trackers. > > See the EFF testing site for more details: > > <https://panopticlick.eff.org/> >-- aware of panopticlick. if you have a file in profile directory, add this to it. if not, create file and paste this in it. //set user agent to blank user_pref("general.useragent.override", " "); what makes you get a unique rating is that you report no agent. only info any site will know about you is your ip address. if you want to hide that, use a proxy server. ((GBWG)) -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .
now i goofed. :-\ On 03/24/16 11:13, g wrote: <<<>>>> aware of panopticlick. > > if you have a file in profile directory, >-- above should read; if you have file "user.js" in profile directory,> add this to it. if not, > create file and paste this in it. > > //set user agent to blank > user_pref("general.useragent.override", " "); > > what makes you get a unique rating is that you report no agent. only > info any site will know about you is your ip address. > > if you want to hide that, use a proxy server. ((GBWG)) >-- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .
On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 10:56 -0500, g wrote:> > See the EFF testing site for more details: > > > > <https://panopticlick.eff.org/>> aware of panopticlick.It states (calculator needed) 11.6% of browsers have time zone 0 (GMT) 10.0% of browsers have "Linux x86_64" (note this excludes Android) 4.0% of browsers have "en-GB"> if you have a file in profile directory, add this to it. if not, > create file and paste this in it. > > //set user agent to blank > user_pref("general.useragent.override", " ");This can also be set, in Firefox, using about:config Right-click new string, ........ etc.> what makes you get a unique rating is that you report no agent. only > info any site will know about you is your ip address.Not exactly correct. See his site's "Show full results for fingerprinting" -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
Am 24.03.2016 um 16:56 schrieb g <geleem at bellsouth.net>:> On 03/24/16 09:29, Richard wrote: >>> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016 14:10:41 +0000 >>> From: Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> >>> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 22:29 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: >>> >>> >>> Spread the successful Centos 'brand name' :-) >> >> The user-agent string is one of the items used in uniquely >> identifying/fingerprinting a user/machine, so the more generic it is >> the better. Including the details of the OS add to the "bits of >> identifying information" available to trackers. >> >> See the EFF testing site for more details: >> >> <https://panopticlick.eff.org/> >> > -- > > aware of panopticlick. > > if you have a file in profile directory, add this to it. if not, > create file and paste this in it. > > //set user agent to blank > user_pref("general.useragent.override", " "); >this makes you more identifiable ... -- LF
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of g > Sent: den 24 mars 2016 16:56 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos in the Browser string ? > > if you have a file in profile directory, add this to it. if not, > create file and paste this in it. > > //set user agent to blank > user_pref("general.useragent.override", " "); > > what makes you get a unique rating is that you report no agent. only > info any site will know about you is your ip address. > > if you want to hide that, use a proxy server. ((GBWG))Please excuse my ignorance, but what file in what profile directory is referred to here? -- //Sorin