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Freezing the User-Agent header

From: Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:05:36 +0100

Hi,

as freezing the User-Agent header is currently a thing, I would like to
ask the curl community about their opinions.

The reason for freezing is to reveal less privacy data and make
fingerprinting harder.

Omitting User-Agent is not an issue as random web sites use User-Agent
sniffing (often in wrong ways, but that is a different issue).

Thanks for your time.

References:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/-2JIRNMWJ7s/yHe4tQNLCgAJ

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/new-privacy-oriented-feature-added-to-edge-82-freeze-user-agent/m-p/1165269

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57884

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Received on 2020-02-24