Re: How to stop Pale Moon from Giving out Information
Posted: 2016-08-08, 16:11
Actually, User Agents are mostly useful to solve certain functionality with some web sites, say, you would like to read a minimalist version of a certain web page you can mimic a mobile phone agent to get that result.
But if Big Bro wants to find out who you are you may look like fool pretending to be Web browser "X" and OS "Y", simply because, particularly with Windows, each OS version have their own TCP/IP stack size and shape, ie. the data packets sent by your OS over any network is finger-printable and can't really be modified by a browser. Linux on the other hand seems to share the same TCP/IP stack over all the different distros.
When it comes to different browsers, if I recall my memory correct, each browser have also their own header shape and form sent over the net, even so much as that a Firefox for Windows and Linux differs from each other.
Conclusion, if you are running firefox in Windows, don't spoof another windows version, change ONLY firefox version, that's all you can do, no opera, no chrome etc...or else you have to look at Tor browser.
Seems like you are using this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -uri-leak/
But you don't need that one to stop BL/ff ... NoScript will do the same
go to about:config
remove resource: from noscript.mandatory
add resource:// and resource://gre to noscript.untrusted
But if Big Bro wants to find out who you are you may look like fool pretending to be Web browser "X" and OS "Y", simply because, particularly with Windows, each OS version have their own TCP/IP stack size and shape, ie. the data packets sent by your OS over any network is finger-printable and can't really be modified by a browser. Linux on the other hand seems to share the same TCP/IP stack over all the different distros.
When it comes to different browsers, if I recall my memory correct, each browser have also their own header shape and form sent over the net, even so much as that a Firefox for Windows and Linux differs from each other.
Conclusion, if you are running firefox in Windows, don't spoof another windows version, change ONLY firefox version, that's all you can do, no opera, no chrome etc...or else you have to look at Tor browser.
Thehandyman1957 wrote:Yup, I got that covered too.Fedor2 wrote:Whats a problem with os? Other browsers gives that information too. And there are advanced methods of os detection irrespective of the userganet string. See http://www.browserleaks.com/firefox
Seems like you are using this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -uri-leak/
But you don't need that one to stop BL/ff ... NoScript will do the same
go to about:config
remove resource: from noscript.mandatory
add resource:// and resource://gre to noscript.untrusted