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 genodeftest):

Replying to [comment:1 mattdm]:
> But, as a practical matter as noted in bug #1190774, there's so much
leaking out of Firefox and Fedora in general that it seems odd to fixate
on this one thing. Fingerprinting via plugins and fonts are already likely
to be more specific for tracking, and probably can be used by malicious
actors to identify Fedora systems with high confidence anyway.

Plugins are highly discouraged and mostly gone. There is no use in browser
plugins left. Whoever is using plugins probably doesn't care about
security or privacy anyway.
But you're right about fonts (e.g. canvas fingerprinting).

Replying to [comment:3 smooge]:
> We aren't the only distribution putting in a branding for their usage.
Ubuntu and Android (who have the lion share of Linux usage) have put in
their brands for years.

Both, Ubuntu and Android, are (or have been) making profit from selling
user data. Fedora doesn't do that.

I can't argue against your other arguments though.

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