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Re:Web Analytics Illegal in UK after 26 May? Crazy by jasomill on Friday April 20, 2012 @07:45PM (#3870285)
Well, having made no special effort, the site claims my User-Agent is as unique as my set of 5,150 installed fonts. To be fair, I suppose WebKit nightly version numbers don't satisfy most definitions of "random".

As for mechanisms, to what end, if nobody bothers to use them? Especially things like "randomize User-Agent string" that'd break a great many "non-evil" sites?

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Re:Web Analytics Illegal in UK after 26 May? Crazy by mwexler on Monday April 23, 2012 @05:49PM (#3881149)
Looks like someone made a "randomize user-agent" for Chrome: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3880536
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