On 06/23/2014 12:11 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > I noticed there are at least 2 different references in Torbrowser for > useragent over ride strings. > > The Panopticlick site picks up this one: "/Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; > rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0/," though there's another shown in > about:config: extensions.torbutton.useragent_override;Mozilla/5.0 > (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0. > > Aside from the fact there are 2 strings shown in about:config, the > string that Panopticlick detects shows Windows 7 (32 bit - I assume). > > Several Windows usage by version sites show Win 7 64 bit as much more > common. If true, why doesn't Torbrowser use that in its useragent? > > The string in Torbrowser may be one of the most common setups? Some > "useragent info" sites show 64 bit OSes are more common in the string. > In my 1st visit to Panopticlick in a long time, using Torbrowser - it > showed > > Browser Characteristic: User Agent > bits of identifying information: 6.73 > one in x browsers have this value: 105.86 > value: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 > > For the useragent string alone, 1 in 106 is pretty low. >
To my knowledge TorBrowser doesn't try to hide the fact that it's TorBrowser. As long as all TorBrowsers are the same (which I assume is the case), then it shouldn't affect the anonymity set unless I'm mistaken. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
