On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:46, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Nov 09 2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > And with this in > > /etc/privoxy/user.action > > { \ > > +hide-user-agent{Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)} \ > > } > > / > > > > > > every site will think I'm on IE and NT ... :) > > Please, don't do that. > > This way, if the administrators of the website ever chech their logs to > make statistics, they will think that IE has far more users than it > actually has and the side effect of that is that they will think that > they have one less reason to make a website that is standards compliant. > > Please, at least identify yourself as Netscape/Mozilla and don't forget > to complain to the website that you had problems to access it with > Linux.
I agree completely. I hope that you will only temporarily use any solution here for problematic Web sites and only after you have informed their webmasters of their glaring flaws.
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