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<font size="-1">Yep perfect it makes sense thanks!<br>
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for who are interesed i just download this firefox extention to
spoof browser profile :) and generate a new one every X minutes!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/random-agent-spoofer/">https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/random-agent-spoofer/</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/18/16 16:06, Isaac David wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:1453129564.1025.0@plebeian.isacdaavid.info"
type="cite">It's a privacy feature, not a bug. Icecat and
Torbrowser do the same by default.
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<div>Web servers can use the user agent string to identify
users. Because GNU+Linux users</div>
<div>are far less common than other kinds of users they really
stand out in the crowd. </div>
<div>Ironically, lying about our user agent makes our operating
system come even lower in the</div>
<div>market share studies, and the process repeats.</div>
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<div>The go-to reference for browser fingerprinting is EFF's
Panopticlick program:</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/">https://panopticlick.eff.org/</a></div>
<div>They explain it in more detail and allow you to measure
your browser's uniqueness.</div>
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<div>(Non-free javascript warning! Most javascript at eff.org is
free and LibreJS-compliant,</div>
<div> but the panopticlick code isn't marked as such and I
could't verify its license)</div>
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Le lun. 18 janv. 2016 à 6:15, Benoît
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:benoitne@gmail.com"><benoitne@gmail.com></a> a écrit :<br>
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<font size="-1">Hi, <br>
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Is there any reason why by default iceweasel is using
Mozilla/5.0 (<b>Windows NT</b> 6.1; rv:43.0)
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I already have user agent switcher but I don't understand
why iceweasel doesn't detect the OS properly to put Linux
instead?<br>
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thanks<br>
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belette<br>
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