Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers
Yes and no. Although IP addresses are a better tracking mechanism than
User-Agent strings, each of them makes the other more effective. If you
always browse from one IP, and all the other people at that IP use
Windows, then this doesn't help you.
But maybe you use open wifi networks, and other Debian users also use
those networks. Maybe there are other Debian users behind your NAT.
Maybe your friends come over sometimes and they also use Debian. In
those cases, standardising the User-Agent string increases the size of
your anonymity sets for various activities.
On Sep 21, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
>
> It would be sort of pointless unless we could find a way to all browse
> from the same IP address.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
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