X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.stoutner.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=app%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Fassets%2Fen%2Fguide_user_agent.html;h=3e7e0f493c394d4573d24757c3abcc0fdbc0f462;hb=HEAD;hp=ba9a8db54e611bd860d8293152bcb9b1a198da60;hpb=8142ac5fc2489de735de4b6fa21a1eae733ccfce;p=PrivacyBrowserAndroid.git diff --git a/app/src/main/assets/en/guide_user_agent.html b/app/src/main/assets/en/guide_user_agent.html index ba9a8db5..e762bb38 100644 --- a/app/src/main/assets/en/guide_user_agent.html +++ b/app/src/main/assets/en/guide_user_agent.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + + User Agent @@ -41,16 +42,14 @@ The screenshot below shows a Pixel 2 XL running Android 10 with Android System WebView 84.0.4147.125 installed. Most web servers will recognize this as a mobile browser and will display the mobile version of the site if they have one.

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There is enough information in the user agent that sometimes only a few visitors to a website will be the same. If the user agent is combined with another piece of non-unique identifying information, often it results in a unique fingerprint. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation created a tool called Panopticlick to demonstrate how much information can be gleaned from these sources. + The Electronic Frontier Foundation created a tool called Cover Your Tracks to demonstrate how much information can be gleaned from these sources. If this test is run with JavaScript enabled the amount of information that is disclosed increases greatly. Browser Leaks and Am I Unique are also good sources of information on this topic.

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There are several preset user agents that match common browsers and operating systems. For browser fingerprinting purposes, anything that is rare is easier to track. If Privacy Browser becomes common and many people use PrivacyBrowser/1.0 as their user agent, it will be a good choice for privacy. Firefox or Chrome are the most common user agents, but they auto-update and their version numbers change so quickly that it is likely the user agents included in Privacy Browser @@ -58,6 +57,6 @@

Some websites do not function correctly if they do not recognize the user agent. Using domain settings to set the user agent to WebView Default, or another user agent that is commonly recognized, usually resolves the problem. - Android’s WebView does not allow the user agent to be blank. If it is, WebView simply sends the default user agent to the server.

+ Android’s WebView does not allow the user agent to be blank. If it is, WebView sends the default user agent to the server instead.

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