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List:       konq-bugs
Subject:    [Bug 228831] New: support eff campaign against browser finger
From:       <m.wege () web ! de>
Date:       2010-02-27 23:32:40
Message-ID: bug-228831-5021 () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228831

           Summary: support eff campaign against browser finger printing
                    by changing default values
           Product: konqueror
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konq-bugs@kde.org
        ReportedBy: m.wege@web.de


Version:           4.4.00 (KDE 4.4.0) (using 4.4.00 (KDE 4.4.0), Kubuntu
packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31-20-generic

I would like to suggest to change the default values of Konquerors and rekonqs
user agent string to something makes browser finger printing more difficult.
Currently the EFF has a campaign against this method of tracking users by their
user agent string. Since Konqueror and Rekonq are not used very often it is
even easier to track users with the standard settings. I believe even the KDE
version (accept of may that it is the KDE4 series) is not so important, since
no one will really care to create different pages for differrent versions of
the browsers. The only interest may be for statistical reasons of KDE and the
distros (I trust they would not misuse this data for tracking). So for those
pages there could be exceptions added, if this is needed.

BTW: Could someone assign this bug to rekonq too? I believe only one report is
necessary, since a shared setting would make sense.

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