On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 7:19 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 1:05 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 4 2022 at 12:38:55 PM -0400, Neal Gompa > > <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why? > > > > It was added to get usage statistics from some Wikimedia site that shut > > down 5+ years ago, so we haven't used it in a real long time. There's > > some value to website operators who find it interesting, I suppose, but > > that doesn't outweigh the disadvantages: > > > > For Chrome, it has to go because of the version 100 Cloudflare trouble. > > > > For WebKit, it's nice to remove it because of persistent troubles with > > specific websites that require debranding quirks. > > > > For Firefox, I don't know any specific problems, but I wouldn't be > > surprised if it encounters version 100 trouble too. > > > > For all of the above, it's another data point for fingerprinting users. > > Admittedly it is not a very big one, but it's better to not have it > > than to have it. > > > > I disagree. I *deliberately* want Fedora showing up and growing in > this manner. If Chrome OS can advertise itself uniquely so it's broken > out and people take note enough to test for it, I think it's equally > worth it for Fedora to show up. I know it has positively influenced > things in Fedora users' favor before in less than obvious ways, so I'd > prefer to keep it. > > In any case, Alberto Ruiz reached out to Cloudflare via Twitter, and > it is now being looked into on their part. > Oh, and just in case you weren't aware: Ubuntu does this too, so all it will look like to website operators is that we disappeared off the face of the earth. <sarcasm> Yay! </sarcasm> -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
