minus-squareThe_Decryptor@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last monthlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 days agoEhh, bots have always presented nonsense UAs to servers. And since modern browsers hard-code the OS version in the UA string, pretending to be an old browser on an old OS could be a (probably ineffectual) way to bypass fingerprinting. linkfedilink
minus-squareThe_Decryptor@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every DaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoAnything that polls location data can record it and sell it, probably more apps that sell it than don’t. linkfedilink
Ehh, bots have always presented nonsense UAs to servers. And since modern browsers hard-code the OS version in the UA string, pretending to be an old browser on an old OS could be a (probably ineffectual) way to bypass fingerprinting.