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How can I anonymize my browser useragent, yet still be counted as a Firefox/Ubuntu user?
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I read about EFF's Panopticlick project to see how unique your webbrowser's headers are. I would like to anonymize that a bit. My current User Agent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7 I would like to make that more anonymous, how…
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Partially anonymizing your user agent actually makes your header more unique, not less. (Think of a stripe-less zebra in a herd.) However, if you insist I would start by removing all specific minor version numbers as they can be used to target known…
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