On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:03:05PM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote: > This means, in practice, that many sites will be able to track Debian > users by their User-Agent, even if (say) the user is blocking cookies or > limiting them to a single session and is changing IP address regularly.
I would strongly expect that any user sufficiently concerned about these issues to take active steps like those would be willing to use things like either the user agent configuration availialbe one way or another in most browsers or something like privoxy (possibly in conjunction with tor) which will do the same things and more. > What do people think of picking a single User-Agent string for all > versions of all of Debian's Gecko-based browsers? I don't personally think it's worth it. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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