#60: Firefox: Don't increase fingerprint by adding "Fedora" to user agent -------------------------+-------------------- Reporter: genodeftest | Owner: Status: new | Priority: minor Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------- Comment (by genodeftest): Replying to [comment:1 mattdm]: > But, as a practical matter as noted in bug #1190774, there's so much leaking out of Firefox and Fedora in general that it seems odd to fixate on this one thing. Fingerprinting via plugins and fonts are already likely to be more specific for tracking, and probably can be used by malicious actors to identify Fedora systems with high confidence anyway. Plugins are highly discouraged and mostly gone. There is no use in browser plugins left. Whoever is using plugins probably doesn't care about security or privacy anyway. But you're right about fonts (e.g. canvas fingerprinting). Replying to [comment:3 smooge]: > We aren't the only distribution putting in a branding for their usage. Ubuntu and Android (who have the lion share of Linux usage) have put in their brands for years. Both, Ubuntu and Android, are (or have been) making profit from selling user data. Fedora doesn't do that. I can't argue against your other arguments though. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/60#comment:4> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
