If Windows and Mac users report different user-agent strings, then the advertisers and NSA/GCHQ and anyone else watching can distinguish Windows and Mac users simply by looking at the user-agent strings. For comparison, the Tor Browser always reports Windows and the Firefox ESR version on which it is based: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 When fingerprinting protection is enabled, it should always report the same user-agent string, including the same operating system, for everyone. This partitions the anonymity set of users by operating system. Currently Brave's user-agent string always reports the true operating system under which it is running.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |