[tbb-bugs] #26146 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Setting `general.useragent.override` does not spoof the platform part anymore in ESR 60 which is confusing

Mon Sep 10 08:43:36 UTC 2018

#26146: Setting `general.useragent.override` does not spoof the platform part
anymore in ESR 60 which is confusing
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 Reporter:  gk                               |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                           |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                           |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ff60-esr, tbb-fingerprinting-os  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:30 cypherpunks3]:
 > So far, while it may be beneficial to OSX users to disable spoofing (it
 is supposedly bad enough that some of them are actually leaving), I would
 like to see spoofing done for Linux users, in part because we are far less
 common than OSX users and stand out more in access logs with their default
 log level.

 I think that's not true. The point here is not to count the fraction of
 Linux users per se but rather the fraction of Linux users *that use Tor
 Browser*. And I think that fraction is actually *larger* than the macOS
 Tor Browser users, at least if we believe the fractions shown for
 downloading fresh Tor Browser bundles (AFAICT we don't have statistics
 somewhere yet for per OS update ping numbers).

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