#60: Firefox: Don't increase fingerprint by adding "Fedora" to user agent
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Reporter: genodeftest | Owner:
Status: new | Priority: minor
Component: General | Resolution:
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Comment (by smooge):
Your first paragraph says that if we don'the do x we don't value privacy
at all... which comes across as absolutist. If that is what you mean then
I can only say that the only absolute privacy is if we don't allow the
user to connect to any network. Because anything less than that is going
to leak data.
What the isp is looking for is how many people are coming to their
services with a Fedora browser so that they can tell if their investment
in giving servers we put our proxies are worth it. Pretty much every site
who does some sort of sponsorship has increasingly voiced this need. I am
not saying that we should do this for this reason or that we should fear
the consequences for not doing so. However we should prepare for them.
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