* Colin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-06 20:52:34]:

> If you want to avoid a distinct fingerprint, you could advocate  
> installing http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
> Granted, it's not the kindest software on external servers, but it's in  
> common use, and would set the connections much higher.
>
>>
>> As far as I remember we have always been asking users to change that
>> setting... I don't think that you can reliably fingerprint freenet users
>> with it. Many websites give it as a "tip" to improve browsing performances;
>> there would be too many false positives for it to be a reliable metric.
>>
>> NextGen$
>>    

Well, If the user is using the same browser to browse both freenet and
the internet, game is already over.

They are numerous techniques to find it out; using the number of
simultaneous connections the browser allows is less reliable than using
http://ha.ckers.org/weird/CSS-history-hack.html for instance.

NextGen$

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