resend. yuckahoo bounced another post.
On 03/24/16 09:29, Richard wrote:
>> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016 14:10:41 +0000
>> From: Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 22:29 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:
>>
>>> What purpose does it serve? I don't object to it being there
>>> but I also don't see a benefit to it being there.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu btw is not exactly a distribution I want RHEL/EPEL/CentOS
>>> developers to emulate...
>>
>> Spread the successful Centos 'brand name' :-)
>
> The user-agent string is one of the items used in uniquely
> identifying/fingerprinting a user/machine, so the more generic it is
> the better. Including the details of the OS add to the "bits of
> identifying information" available to trackers.
>
> See the EFF testing site for more details:
>
> <https://panopticlick.eff.org/>
>
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aware of panopticlick.
if you have a file in profile directory, add this to it. if not,
create file and paste this in it.
//set user agent to blank
user_pref("general.useragent.override", " ");
what makes you get a unique rating is that you report no agent. only
info any site will know about you is your ip address.
if you want to hide that, use a proxy server. ((GBWG))
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peace out.
If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes...
...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it!
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in a world with out fences, who needs gates.
CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7
tc,hago.
g
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