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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by andrewguenther on Sunday January 10, 2016 @07:47PM (#10878072)
How do they encourage user tracking? The user agent string only tells you information about the browser, not the user.
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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by pdkl95 on Sunday January 10, 2016 @08:23PM (#10878219)
It's not the only data that is available for deriving a tracking key.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Why are you pretending that there is some sort of difference between "tracking a user" and "tracking the user's browser", which is close enough for most tracking purposes? Tracking the browser is tracking a user for a vast majority of people. For browsers on a phone, it is even more likely to be a 1:1 mapping.

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by andrewguenther on Sunday January 10, 2016 @11:27PM (#10878806)
The user agent (by itself) provides you none of those things....

> Why are you pretending that there is some sort of difference between "tracking a user" and "tracking the user's browser"

I'm not? That isn't what I said.

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by drdaeman on Sunday January 10, 2016 @08:18PM (#10878207)
They add extra bits of identifying information to the pool.

You know, https://panopticlick.eff.org/

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by Survey_Sez on Sunday January 10, 2016 @08:59PM (#10878323)
https://www.browserleaks.com/ is another useful resource to help understand browser fingerprinting and how to combat it.
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