On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > The current default for some browsers in Debian informs webmasters > about which browser is being used.
I think you mean "all browsers" rather than "some browsers"? Are there actually browsers that do not send the User-Agent HTTP header by default? I'm using xul-ext-useragentswitcher to disable sending the User-Agent header but I doubt any browsers will ever do that by default. > The user can, naturally, change it > to suit his/her needs. How does merely using this string to track hits > to DDG (with no changes to the default user-agent) change anything for > the user? They can track us anyway, right now, right? Probably you missed the part of the email that says we should add t=debian by default to every new DDG search URL? I would suggest that it should be up to the users what t= should be set to when sending search requests to DDG, not Debian. If DDG wants to donate money to Debian based on User-Agent then great, but I don't see how they can do that yet, given that many browsers in Debian probably don't mention Debian in User-Agent. Of the ones I tested, only elinks and epiphany-browser do that. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6Gz=j5dtd4z+jpuq3unktgfgfuqy47bff2ikpaxkrm...@mail.gmail.com
