Iron in the UserAgent

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enda
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Iron in the UserAgent

Post by enda »

Doesn't having Iron/version_number in the UserAgent make the browser more easily able to be tracked?

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bksening
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Re: Iron in the UserAgent

Post 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.
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Re: Iron in the UserAgent

Post 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.
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