#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 smooge): It needs to be general because the Council isn't meant to dictate technical policy. It is meant to dictate general policy that groups like FESCO etc can build technical policy around. The reason it needs to be generalized is that if Firefox has to alter its string but Konqueror/Epiphany/Seamonkey/curl/wget/lynx doesn't then are we actually helping user privacy? If we just remove a user agent string but don't deal with how modern fingerprinting is done.. are we actually helping user privacy or just doing a political lie. Also it will help clarify why the string is there and who it is to help. Fedora may not be selling user PII for profit, but we have multiple sponsors who are looking for ways to know that their sponsorship 'has value'. For example, most of the webservers that deliver our content are from various ISP's who don't know why they should be sponsoring Fedora. Several have asked us for ways to distinguish Linux browsers down to the ones they are sponsoring without having to use the more invasive PII stealing fingerprinting analytics. Various other potential sponsors for projects and conventions have also asked how can they measure value? There may be other reasons also. Those reasons have to be weighed in the open and clearly as to better determine an overall privacy policy. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/60#comment:9> 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.
