The web server can use this information to decide which version of the website to send to the browser.
For example, many websites have different versions for desktop and mobile browsers.</p>
- <p>By default, Privacy Browser uses its own user agent, which is PrivacyBrowser/1.0. This sends a minimum of information to the web server.
+ <p>By default, Privacy Browser uses its own user agent, which is <code>PrivacyBrowser/1.0</code>. This sends a minimum of information to the web server.
Because web servers do not recognize this to be a mobile user agent, they typically display the desktop version of the site.</p>
<p>By comparison, WebView’s default user agent divulges a large amount of information about the hardware and software of the device.
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<p>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.
+ If Privacy Browser becomes common and many people use <code>PrivacyBrowser/1.0</code> 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
will often be out of step with the majority of user agents in the server logs.</p>
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