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Re:Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged... by sametmax on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:56AM (#14695895)
There are add ons to change the user agent to something more generic. You can even randomize it but it breaks many more sites than I was expecting.
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Re:Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged... by roblabla on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:09PM (#14696644)
I think randomizing the UA might actually be worse, since it would allow services to fingerprint you across calls more precisely.

The point is to not ever be different from others. Act like the rest of the crowd. By changing your UA every now and then, you stand out, and become easier to identify.

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Re:Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged... by ReverseCold on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:19AM (#14696364)
If by randomizing you mean random strings (and not from a list), then I think this is relevant:

https://xkcd.com/1105/

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Re:Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged... by sametmax on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:22AM (#14696380)
Randomly selected from a pool of known UA.
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