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Privacy Possum makes tracking you less profitable
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Doesn't randomize the user agent in most of the cases #170

Open rawlife56 opened 5 years ago

rawlife56 commented 5 years ago

First of all, thanks for this wonderful add-on which is one of its kind. Coming to the issue- My suspicion started when Panopticlick was able to detect my true user agent. I searched the github and came to know from you that Panopticlick doesn't mirror the real world usage and tried Fingerprintjs like you suggested for which I have to turn off Ublock origin & No script in that website for it to work and show randomized values as intended.

I headed to popular browser download websites like Chrome, Firefox & Opera to check if the user agent spoofing is working as intended in the real world usage because these websites usually check for user agent to provide the relevant installation file automatically. Sadly, all the websites were able to accurately detect my user agent and provided the right installation file for Linux.

To check if there's a problem on my end, I installed this add-on which manually switches the user agent string and changed to Windows. Browser download websites started to offer .exe files as intended.

*Apart from this user agent string, everything randomizes fine with Privacy Possum.

lodrigu1234 commented 5 years ago

thanks for your courning

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 9:01 AM rawlife56 notifications@github.com wrote:

First of all, thanks for this wonderful add on which is one of its kind. Coming to the issue- My suspicion started when Panopticlick https://panopticlick.eff.org/ was able to detect my true user agent. I searched the github and came to know from you that Panopticlick doesn't mirror the real world usage and tried Fingerprintjs https://valve.github.io/fingerprintjs2/ like you suggested for which I have to turn off Ublock origin & No script in that website for it to work and show randomized values as intended.

I headed to popular browser download websites like Chrome, Firefox & Opera to check if the user agent spoofing is working as intended in the real world usage because these websites usually check for user agent to provide the relevant installation file automatically. Sadly, all the websites were able to accurately detect my user agent and provided the right installation file for Linux.

To check if there's a problem on my end, I installed this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/ add-on which manually switches the user agent string and changed to Windows. Browser download websites started to offer .exe files as intended.

*Apart from this user agent string, everything randomizes fine with Privacy Possum.

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slowfar commented 5 years ago

when everyone looks like the same one person it is difficult to determine a single behavior. When each person is extra unique you have simplified tracking.