Re: [council] #60: Firefox: Don't increase fingerprint by adding "Fedora" to user agent

#60: Firefox: Don't increase fingerprint by adding "Fedora" to user agent
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Reporter: genodeftest | Owner:
Status: new | Priority: minor
Component: General | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by smooge):

It needs to be general because the Council isn't meant to dictate
technical policy. It is meant to dictate general policy that groups like
FESCO etc can build technical policy around.

The reason it needs to be generalized is that if Firefox has to alter its
string but Konqueror/Epiphany/Seamonkey/curl/wget/lynx doesn't then are
we actually helping user privacy? If we just remove a user agent string
but don't deal with how modern fingerprinting is done.. are we actually
helping user privacy or just doing a political lie.

Also it will help clarify why the string is there and who it is to help.
Fedora may not be selling user PII for profit, but we have multiple
sponsors who are looking for ways to know that their sponsorship 'has
value'. For example, most of the webservers that deliver our content are
from various ISP's who don't know why they should be sponsoring Fedora.
Several have asked us for ways to distinguish Linux browsers down to the
ones they are sponsoring without having to use the more invasive PII
stealing fingerprinting analytics. Various other potential sponsors for
projects and conventions have also asked how can they measure value? There
may be other reasons also. Those reasons have to be weighed in the open
and clearly as to better determine an overall privacy policy.

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