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  • Tor is not worth Jack Shit anymore

    From Nomen Nescio@nobody@dizum.com to alt.os.linux on Sat Jul 19 15:12:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    They stopped spoofing the OS. So makes it easier for Mossad, FSB, CIA, MI5
    to work out who you are.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.os.linux on Sun Jul 20 00:13:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:12:56 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote:

    They stopped spoofing the OS.

    That’s just a configurable User-Agent line, isn’t it?
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  • From Ralf Schneider@schneiderr@freenet.de to alt.os.linux on Tue Jul 22 20:49:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    Am Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:13:53 -0000 (UTC) schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:12:56 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote:

    They stopped spoofing the OS.

    That’s just a configurable User-Agent line, isn’t it?

    Do you know and can you tell us what parameters to change ?
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.os.linux on Wed Jul 23 02:26:01 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:49:30 -0000 (UTC), Ralf Schneider wrote:

    Am Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:13:53 -0000 (UTC) schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:12:56 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote:

    They stopped spoofing the OS.

    That’s just a configurable User-Agent line, isn’t it?

    Do you know and can you tell us what parameters to change ?

    In Firefox, it’s one of those about:config things.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux on Wed Jul 23 09:05:00 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    On 2025-07-23 04:26, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:49:30 -0000 (UTC), Ralf Schneider wrote:

    Am Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:13:53 -0000 (UTC) schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:12:56 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote:

    They stopped spoofing the OS.

    That’s just a configurable User-Agent line, isn’t it?

    Do you know and can you tell us what parameters to change ?

    In Firefox, it’s one of those about:config things.

    <https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent/firefox>

    There was an addon to do it, and choose a predefined one from a list. I
    had it on a laptop.

    What I don't remember is if the user agent line shows the operating
    system or that is another one. According to that link, it is, there is a
    test link inside. And wrongly suggest my FF is outdated. It is not, it
    is the ESR version.
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.os.linux on Wed Jul 23 09:00:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    On Wed, 7/23/2025 3:05 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-07-23 04:26, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:49:30 -0000 (UTC), Ralf Schneider wrote:

    Am Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:13:53 -0000 (UTC) schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:12:56 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote:

    They stopped spoofing the OS.

    That’s just a configurable User-Agent line, isn’t it?

    Do you know and can you tell us what parameters to change ?

    In Firefox, it’s one of those about:config things.

    <https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent/firefox>

    There was an addon to do it, and choose a predefined one from a list. I had it on a laptop.

    What I don't remember is if the user agent line shows the operating system or
    that is another one. According to that link, it is, there is a test link inside.
    And wrongly suggest my FF is outdated. It is not, it is the ESR version.


    https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent/

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 # Win11

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0 # Browser via Bash Shell W11

    Yes, there are OS details there.

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
    Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/138.0.0.0 # MSEdge W11

    There are add-ons with a string rotator to produce a random (valid) string from a
    collection of strings.

    Thunderbird also injects a UserAgent string in the header of USENET messages, but it removed the level of detail the Firefox engine would have included. There is an option in Thunderbird, to turn the detailed version back on.

    Most of the out-of-date-browser declarations, are likely coming from Google code.
    For example, web fora that won't allow you to scroll down, the web fora (being just text), would have worked with a copy of Hello World, and does not
    need the latest Javascript for a good time :-)

    When websites get paid to use materials like that, it turns
    the web into what it is. A sewer.

    Paul
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux on Thu Jul 24 07:16:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    gesOn 7/23/25 9:00 AM, Paul wrote:
    On Wed, 7/23/2025 3:05 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-07-23 04:26, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:49:30 -0000 (UTC), Ralf Schneider wrote:

    Am Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:13:53 -0000 (UTC) schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:12:56 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote:

    They stopped spoofing the OS.

    That’s just a configurable User-Agent line, isn’t it?

    Do you know and can you tell us what parameters to change ?

    In Firefox, it’s one of those about:config things.

    <https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent/firefox>

    There was an addon to do it, and choose a predefined one from a list. I had it on a laptop.

    What I don't remember is if the user agent line shows the operating system or
    that is another one. According to that link, it is, there is a test link inside.
    And wrongly suggest my FF is outdated. It is not, it is the ESR version.


    https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent/

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 # Win11

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0 # Browser via Bash Shell W11

    Yes, there are OS details there.

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
    Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/138.0.0.0 # MSEdge W11

    There are add-ons with a string rotator to produce a random (valid) string from a
    collection of strings.

    Thunderbird also injects a UserAgent string in the header of USENET messages, but it removed the level of detail the Firefox engine would have included. There is an option in Thunderbird, to turn the detailed version back on.

    Most of the out-of-date-browser declarations, are likely coming from Google code.
    For example, web fora that won't allow you to scroll down, the web fora (being
    just text), would have worked with a copy of Hello World, and does not
    need the latest Javascript for a good time :-)

    When websites get paid to use materials like that, it turns
    the web into what it is. A sewer.

    Paul

    I beg your pardon? That's no way to talk about data rats like
    zookerbooger or alpha ilk bits and merchants :-)

    But I do enjoy seeing pages rendered in mookmookese with an offer to translate.

    Spoofing user-agent would be novum if it was a different one at random
    on each launch. Would actually be nice if only the mentioned host of
    cloak and dagger agencies spied on me! I would even supply them with a
    live streaming colonoscopy.


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