On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> wrote: > What are the reasons for adding the distributor name to the user agent > string? Does it solve any problem?
Epiphany currently has "Debian" in the user agent string. That will stop working in 3.28 without this patch. It looks like Debian's Chromium and Firefox ESR do not currently have Debian in their user agent strings. Ubuntu and Fedora do. Ubuntu wants the user agent string to include Ubuntu, even if you decide that Debian doesn't want to identify itself. As for whether it makes sense for Debian, I guess you have to decide whether it's more useful to be able to see how popular Debian is on websites that report OS statistics (like Wikipedia) or whether it's more useful to hide that info to make it a bit tougher for third parties to identify our users (of course, website owners already know the IP address of every visitor). Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
