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minus-square@Squizzylink5•1 year agoHow do they know the percentage, does Linux send info back to somewhere?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•1 year agoyour browser tells websites what os youre using
minus-square@Squizzylink1•1 year agoOh yeah, another thing I’ve to do is find a browser that doesn’t.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agohttps://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent/firefox
minus-square@Squizzylink1•1 year agoYeah, I already use Firefox and the standard add ons, but I wasn’t sure if it was one that gave out user data to websites.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoby default it does not randomize the user agent string, because that would make some websites, (eg: download pages) behave weird
How do they know the percentage, does Linux send info back to somewhere?
your browser tells websites what os youre using
Oh yeah, another thing I’ve to do is find a browser that doesn’t.
https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent/firefox
Yeah, I already use Firefox and the standard add ons, but I wasn’t sure if it was one that gave out user data to websites.
by default it does not randomize the user agent string, because that would make some websites, (eg: download pages) behave weird
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