Chris Marusich transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Nils Gillmann <[email protected]> writes: > > > Reducing fingerprinting is hardly advertisment. > > I agree with Nils: the IceCat default user agent string is accomplishing > its intended purpose, which is to protect users' privacy by default by > obscuring your fingerprint. You can change it if you want to. > > Pierre Neidhardt <[email protected]> writes: > > > Sounds like a misfeature to me: lots of website use it to display the > > right content depending on the OS the user is running (tutorials, > > downloads, etc.). Disclosing the OS family the user is running is > > hardly a threat to privacy in my opinion. > > On this topic, you might find the following humorous article to be > interesting: > > https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/ > > The meaning of the user agent string is pretty muddy in today's world! > > -- > Chris
Offtopic, but gmail seems to have broken Mailinglist / Thread interaction now. You are sending every reply with a double subject. Not that it's distracting, but it would be great if it could be avoided.
