On Sep 22, Peter Eckersley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This means, in practice, that many sites will be able to track Debian > users by their User-Agent, even if (say) the user is blocking cookies or > limiting them to a single session and is changing IP address regularly. This is highly debateable. There may be tens or thousands of users of the same package visiting a web site.
> What do people think of picking a single User-Agent string for all > versions of all of Debian's Gecko-based browsers? It's a bad idea. Please do not try to fuck up browsers. > Would there be any serious harm in terms of browser debugging? Are Yes. For no real gain, it would make debugging harder and make statistics much less useful. > there many sites which usefully treat different Gecko browsers > differently? It's probably a number small enough to not be relevant in any decision. Using the User-Agent string instead of proper functional testing is badly broken anyway and is not the reason for User-Agent and similar headers in other protocols. > As a far more hypothetical question, what would people think of picking > a single User-Agent for Gecko-based browsers for a larger set of > GNU/Linux distributions? A waste of time for us, but I am sure that you could use it to make some nice PR to justify your job. -- ciao, Marco
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