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Boris Zbarsky points out that most parts of the UA lead to bad sniffing. Irish "ga-IE" and "Minef'''ie'''ld" get detected as IE. Sites incorrectly sniff based on OS. Sites sniff for Gecko years rather than Gecko versions. Going from 3.0.9 to 3.0.10 probably breaks things. And quite a few sites sniff for "Firefox", which is a threat to the continued freedom of the web. So removing things from the UA string has a long-term positive effect on compatibility as well as privacy. | Boris Zbarsky points out that most parts of the UA lead to bad sniffing. Irish "ga-IE" and "Minef'''ie'''ld" get detected as IE. Sites incorrectly sniff based on OS. Sites sniff for Gecko years rather than Gecko versions. Going from 3.0.9 to 3.0.10 probably breaks things. And quite a few sites sniff for "Firefox", which is a threat to the continued freedom of the web. So removing things from the UA string has a long-term positive effect on compatibility as well as privacy. | ||
:Filed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=http-fingerprint bugs]. [[User:Hsivonen|Hsivonen]] 09:33, 18 June 2010 (UTC) | |||
== HTTP ACCEPT == | == HTTP ACCEPT == | ||