[tor-bugs] #26146 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Setting `general.useragent.override` does not spoof the platform part anymore in ESR 60 which is confusing
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#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:
| needs_information
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: ff60-esr, tbb-fingerprinting-os, | Actual Points:
tbb-8.0-issues |
Parent ID: | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by cypherpunks3):
Replying to [comment:49 fufufufufufufu]:
> Replying to [comment:47 arthuredelstein]:
>> Here is a pure CSS demo for detecting the OS:
>> https://arthuredelstein.github.io/tordemos/os-detection-font-css.html
> I have a few extra addons in my Tor Browser (8.0) install, but this
doesn't work for me even with all of them disabled and JS enabled. It
simply displays all 3 OS names simultaneously. It makes no network
requests beyond the initial page loading either.
This trick is defeated by disabling external fonts, for example enabling
`noscript.forbidFonts` in NoScript 5, which is something Tor Browser
should always have done, to hell with the broken sites and their users.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26146#comment:51>
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