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16 sats \ 9 replies \ @nerd2ninja 10 Mar \ on: Again about Mozilla policy and some word about Librewolf privacy

I (perhaps controversially) don't like that librewolf tells websites my machine is a Windows machine. I want those bastards to know I'm based.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 10 Mar

librewolf seems to alternate the user agent

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @clr 10 Mar

I'm not sure what you mean. Just checked and my Librewolf on Ubuntu sends Linux as the OS in the user agent, not Windows.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @nerd2ninja 10 Mar

Interesting. I logged into my gmail with the NixOS build of librewolf and got a windows 10 sign in alert.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @teremok 10 Mar

It seems it might be an error of wrong detection. Websites parse the user agent string and if the agent doesn't match the default is probably windows. Or it's trying to spoof it.

Try this on the browser console:

window.navigator.userAgent

See what it prints

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja 10 Mar

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0"

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @teremok 11 Mar

No windows anywhere. It's just the website you're frequenting wrongfully not parsing the string for Linux.

It might be a library they use (unlikely). Or simply bad programming. That's why we need good ones like me :D

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 OP 10 Mar

I'm little bit confused. I think that every browser tell to website the information about you computer even if you don't mask them.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja 10 Mar

Some browsers tell the website this information, some browsers lie about this information. Librewolf is one of the browsers that lie. There might be some technical nuance about the tabs being containerized in a windows container even though I'm using a linux machine or something, but from what I've gathered so far, it lies to websites to make you as the user seem less unique and more generic. Its a good privacy tactic, but its just me. I just want it to tell people I'm on Linux so that eventually marketing strategies adjust to a wider trend of wider linux adoption.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 OP 10 Mar

Ok, I can understand what do you say. I've never used librewolf, I only use degoogled Chromium but, for the moment, I never care about the browser presentation.

Probably, in next future I'll take a look about this.

For the moment I only happened to force the way my smartphone browser presented itself to the website. I happened to have to force the desktop and windows mode to be able to access some content accessible only at this kind of agents.