On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:06:39PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Lincoln de Sousa wrote: > > > The main reason to file this bug was think about the statistics saying > > that I'm using a browser that I'm not =/. > > Thanks for the explanation. > > >> You can experiment with how sites react to various possibilities with > >> the --user-agent command-line option (which is undocumented for some > >> reason). > > > > Doing some tests here nothing seems to be different, neither google, > > youtube and other google services that I was able to test without > > registering. > > This is good to hear. Maybe we should just change the Chrome/ to > Chromium/ and see if anyone screams.
Humm, I can keep looking for any other unwanted side effect. > >> Or maybe it would be good to fix all sites that care and just declare > >> that we are a newish browser, like this: > >> > >> Mozilla/8.0 > > > > Not a way to go at all =P > > I disagree: once the sites are fixed, this is the right way to go. > > There is no good reason for web pages to require detailed information > about the browser with each request. Not even statistics gathering --- > javascript is a better tool for that. Thanks for this explanation, now I think I get your point. I do believe that we can work to improve sites that we can but my concern is in the sites that we can't fix. > There has been some discussion recently on the downsides of sending > too much information about a client to web servers: > > http://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf Very nice reference, thanks! > > (don't think it is actually interesting in this discussion =P) > > I didn’t mean it as a workaround but as a development tool. Again, now I got what you say =D Cheers, -- Lincoln de Sousa <[email protected]> xmpp:[email protected] http://culturadigital.br http://comum.org http://minaslivre.org +55 61 8212 9176 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
