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Comment by pde3

Spoofing your user agent on your own typically makes you easier to fingerprint, not harder. See footnote 3 of the Panopticlick 1.0 paper: https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pdf

It's more plausible for a large population of browsers to share a single spoofed user agent; all of the Tor Browsers pretend to be a single specific version of Firefox for Windows.

parent pde3 11 years ago

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