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著者: onefang
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To: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] Help with uBlock Origin under Firefox
On 2023-06-17 14:51:38, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
>
> > capercally.bleery670@??? said on Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:45:02 -0700
> >
> >>Tor works fine (if you don't mind pages loading slowly), but it is
> >>not a complete solution by itself. You also have to mask other facts
> >>than your IP address. And unfortunately, already using Linux and
> >>even Firefox already cuts the search space by someting like factor
> >>of 10000 I think.
> >
> > How does the website deduce what OS you're using?
>
> By looking at the User-Agent that the HTTP client may (or may not) send.
> Here's what my Firefox sends
>
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
>
> Most HTTP clients can be configured to send whatever you please.
>
> # The can even set apt's User-Agent ;-)
> # Check /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index for details.


So none of us package mirror admins should scratch our heads when we see
Mac and Windows boxen installing apt packages? lol

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