```
read up idle < /proc/uptime
uptime="uptime/$up/$idle"
USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime"
```
Uh, okay, I can understand the curl version, the platform and the
cputype; but the uptime of my nodes is nobody's business but my own.
The platform and CPU type are exposed by normal browser user agent
strings anyway, I'm not really concerned if someone knows I'm amd64 or
arm64; there will be other ways to discover that.... but my uptime?!
really? REALLY?
And I wouldn't have minded as much if there was a comment describing why
uptime was even being included ("This data is used to improve the graphs
publically available at https://errors.ubuntu.com/";) and some kind of
documentation somewhere that this was occurring.
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