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In regards to tracking smaller numbers are better! FF has a user agent switcher plugin that works pretty well. This plugin is also useful if you get to a site that doesn't support your browser. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/
Hiya barriehie
Have you tried using "User agent switcher" (you mentioned it) to help your score? Make a new user agent, name it, then blank out all the following lines and save it. Then try again. I didn't allow cookies either. I don't normally surf that way as I'd just as soon they do know I'm using Linux.
Hiya barriehie
Have you tried using "User agent switcher" (you mentioned it) to help your score? Make a new user agent, name it, then blank out all the following lines and save it. Then try again. I didn't allow cookies either. I don't normally surf that way as I'd just as soon they do know I'm using Linux.
Yes, running it to look like a windows box. Some sites just flat out don't work without cookies so I'll only allow them for the session. I'll try the blanked out agent.
Edit: That worked well. Blanked out and no cookies is 1 in 397!
Edit: That worked well. Blanked out and no cookies is 1 in 397!
Does that make sense? The vast majority of people don't change their User Agent strings and of the ones that do it seems unlikely that a high proportion set them to blanked out. So blank User Agent strings should be rare, not common as the result suggests.
Given that you have to have a User Agent string, the closest you can get to anonymity is to join the biggest crowd, probably Firefox 3.6.8 on Windows XP at this time ... ?
Last edited by catkin; 11-21-2010 at 12:13 AM.
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Does that make sense? The vast majority of people don't change their User Agent strings and of the ones that do it seems unlikely that a high proportion set them to blanked out. So blank User Agent strings should be rare, not common as the result suggests.
Given that you have to have a User Agent string, the closest you can get to anonymity is to join the biggest crowd, probably Firefox 3.6.8 on Windows XP at this time ... ?
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