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dillbyrne / random-agent-spoofer

Firefox addon - Rotates complete browser profiles ( from real browsers / devices ) at a user defined time interval. It includes many extra privacy enhancing options
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-agent-spoofer/
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Always showing User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 #394

Closed XnimrodhunterX closed 8 years ago

XnimrodhunterX commented 8 years ago

Hello, The random agent spoofer is rotating the agent, but it always shows Mozilla/5.0 along with the changed agent.

Examples User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:45.0) Gecko/45.0 Firefox/45.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Tablet; rv:39.0) Gecko/39.0 Firefox/39.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 4.66) AppleWebKit/531.22.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0E; .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .N

Is there a way to disable Mozilla/5.0?

When I use a different user-agent spoofer, it does not show Mozilla at all. The downside is that it will not rotate the agent so I like RAS much butter, but because it shows Mozilla/5.0, it makes it not so random.

ghost commented 8 years ago

This is normal - every browser’s user agent starts with “Mozilla”. The string "Mozilla" is referring to the old Netscape Navigator (which no longer exists).

It's a long, ridiculous story. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-non-Mozilla-browsers-include-Mozilla-in-their-user-agent-strings?share=1

dillbyrne commented 8 years ago

This is not a bug read up on the history of user agents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent#Format_for_human-operated_web_browsers