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Iron in the UserAgent
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:07 pm
by enda
Doesn't having Iron/version_number in the UserAgent make the browser more easily able to be tracked?
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Re: Iron in the UserAgent
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:44 pm
by bksening
As far as I know, Iron browser/the developers DO WANT to have Iron in the user-agent, to make it at least that much trackable.
They DO WANT webservers, traffic analyzers, stats gatherers to know how many people are using Iron browser, and perhaps ideally for stats and/or testing, verifying, reviewing sites and services to know that Iron browser exists.
If you remove Iron from the user-agent, all usage would look like Chrome or Chromium browsers.
Re: Iron in the UserAgent
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:58 pm
by SRWare
If we would remove it, we would no longer be in browserchoice.eu.
If we would also remove the number, you could get problems at some website and/or extension.
But you can do this yourself with UA.ini.