On 14/03/15 00:15, [email protected] wrote: > Reasoning for change of UA: 1) Decreasing the size of HTTP headers, > so that all the headers combined fall below various thresholds (e.g. > fitting into 1 packet, or fitting below certain size for proxies) can > improve internet connectivity as a whole, especially when not using > HTTP/2.
Theoretically it can, but previously we have decided that the tiny number of bytes saved by messing with the UA string is generally not worth the compatibility hit. > 2) Removing things from UA, for all users of a browser, improves > users' privacy by limiting identifiable fields. You are sending: Gecko/31.0 Firefox/31.0 (Windows NT 6.1) Firefox currently sends (for me): Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Mozilla/5.0 is a fixed string. 20100101 is a fixed string. Your string includes OS info; so does the current one. So in what way is privacy improved with your string? Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
