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Re:EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection T... by rocky1138 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @02:10PM (#10753660)
How about we get together and decide on a common string that all of us can use? We can set our browsers to use that, and our friends' as well. Theoretically, the more people that use the same string, the harder we'll be to track, correct?
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Re:EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection T... by r-w on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:26PM (#10755789)
JonDo has done exactly that: “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0”. It hasn’t changed things much, thanks to its relative obscurity and the network effect involved. You should try it out!
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Re:EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection T... by redwards510 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:11PM (#10754163)
Yes! How would you say "I'm a generic modern browser that can interpret HTML5. Do not send me flash."
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Re:EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection T... by StavrosK on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:02PM (#10755667)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25
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Re:EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection T... by rocky1138 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @09:13PM (#10756172)
Won't that make some websites send you to the mobile version?

What's the desktop equivalent?

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Re:EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection T... by schoen on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:02PM (#10754086)
Tor Browser does that:

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

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Re:EFF's Panopticlick 2.0 Launches with Tracker Protection T... by legind on Thursday December 17, 2015 @02:42PM (#10753910)
That's right, though it's a bit more difficult. Lots of sites use the User-Agent header to determine how to render a page, and may not render it at all if it's an unexpected value. Pages that allow you to install addons to your browsers also use this string to figure out if you're really running the target browser.
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