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Re: [tor-bugs] #26146 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Setting `general.useragent.override` does not spoof the platform part anymore in ESR 60 which is confusing
#26146: Setting `general.useragent.override` does not spoof the platform part
anymore in ESR 60 which is confusing
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Reporter: gk | Owner: tbb-team
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: ff60-esr, tbb-fingerprinting-os | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by cypherpunks3):
During a brief chat I had with gk on IRC, we were discussing how this
impacts Linux as opposed to OSX. While there are clear problems caused by
user agent spoofing that affects OSX users, there seem to be none of
consequence for Linux users. One possibility that turned up was Google
Translate which used to give an impossible captcha on Tails, but I tested
it on Windows, Tails, and Debian Linux using both the 8.0 and outdated
browsers, and found that that is no longer the case regardless of the
status of user agent spoofing. Whatever was causing it, Google fixed it
for everyone.
So far, while it may be beneficial to OSX users to disable spoofing (it is
supposedly bad enough that some of them are actually leaving), I would
like to see spoofing done for Linux users, in part because we are far less
common than OSX users and stand out more in access logs with their default
log level.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26146#comment:30>
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