Hi, many of the different user agent and service banners are way too detailed for my taste. It sucks privacy wise - disclosing Fedora version, CPU, kernel version, browser version and a few other details mindlessly included in many user agent/service banners would in many cases allow near foolproof tracking even without cookies or paypal/fb bugs. Of course I can individually opt out of this brain damage, but what are the options of a single individual - ? * use fake Internet Explorer user agent identification: my browser will get suboptimal and broken page content and I will "improve" MS market share, not exactly my intention. * use custom user agent string - usually achieves the opposite effect making myself even easier trackable. That is, unless a large majority of Fedora users will use the same standardized UA string I will be still very easilly trackable. * write my own browser or extension which rotates user agent strings smartly, making sure it manages cookies and tcp/ip fingerprints consistently with rotating user agent strings. Not the easiest thing - anyone knows an extension which actually does that? At least reset TCP sequence number generation? * run TOR for everything, make myself prime suspect and enjoy broken service * more ideas?? Then consider how much easier it would be for Fedora and other distros to limit information disclosure by user agents and service banners as default or optional policy. I would argue it should be default policy for desktops. Since most Linux desktops will also run quite a few services those should have a privacy-aware policy as well but as long as the policy is switchable it should not hurt. It has a long tradition to proudly announce every detail of your soft & hardware as well as familiar background and pets in user agent strings but for most users is it not such a good thing to do today. Richard --- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
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