On 11/5/2016 3:08 PM, Mozillian wrote: > What benefit does a Random Agent Spoofer provide ? > > When I tried using it with FireFox sometimes a webpage would not like > being contacted by the spoof and sometimes irrelevant webpage popups > would sow up, sometimes saying it required so mod (add-on) to the > browser to work. >
The purpose of ever-changing user agent (UA) strings is to confound those Web servers that are trying to track your Web surfing activity. I use the Secret Agent extension from <https://www.dephormation.org.uk/index.php?page=81> for that purpose. While the capabilities of Secret Agent include random UA spoofing using dozens of different UA strings, I found that navigating within a Web site is often broken if I do not use the same UA string throughout that site. Thus, I disabled that capability. However, Secret Agent also has capabilities to randomly spoof the "accept" headers sent with the request for a Web page, Javascript OSPCU strings, eTags, and proxy headers. I enabled all of those for most browsing. I found I had to disable Secret Agent completely for browsing many government Web sites and for doing transactions over the Web at financial institution sites. A click of a button does that, and I can also create a white-list for automatic disabling. -- David E. Ross Perhaps it was a smart decision for Hillary Clinton to use her private E-mail server while Secretary of State. According to current Secretary of State John Kerry, we know that the Russians and Chinese have hacked the State Department's servers. In the meantime, a claim by the Romanian hacker known as Guccifer (Marcel Lehel Lazar) that he hacked into Clinton's E-mail server proved false. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
