On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:46, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Nov 09 2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > And with this in
> > /etc/privoxy/user.action
> > { \
> > +hide-user-agent{Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)} \
> > }
> > /
> >
> >
> > every site will think I'm on IE and NT ... :)
>
> Please, don't do that.
>
> This way, if the administrators of the website ever chech their logs to
> make statistics, they will think that IE has far more users than it
> actually has and the side effect of that is that they will think that
> they have one less reason to make a website that is standards compliant.
>
> Please, at least identify yourself as Netscape/Mozilla and don't forget
> to complain to the website that you had problems to access it with
> Linux.
I agree completely. I hope that you will only temporarily use any
solution here for problematic Web sites and only after you have informed
their webmasters of their glaring flaws.
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