[tor-bugs] #9501 [TorBrowserButton]: Reduce TorBrowser's fingerprint by making the user agent string blend into the crowd

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#9501: Reduce TorBrowser's fingerprint by making the user agent string blend into
the crowd
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 Reporter:  DC                |          Owner:  mikeperry       
     Type:  enhancement       |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:                  
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:  Tor: unspecified
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Comment(by DC):

 Replying to [ticket:9501 DC]:

 A possibly even better idea is for TorButton to have a list of the 10 -
 100 most common UA strings for Firefox and have it randomly pick a
 different string every once in a while. If the UA is selected with a
 probability distribution that matches the actual frequency of these UAs in
 the wild, TorBrowser could be blending into a sizeable crowd of Firefox
 users. Then perhaps have TorButton download a new list once a year or
 something like that.

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